Snowden (physics)

A Snowden is a unit of soft X-ray emissivity, equivalent to ROSAT counts .[1] These units were chosen by S. L. Snowden when working with the ROSAT mission to create the ROSAT All-Sky Survey in order to make the surface brightness values fit into a two byte integer.

References
  1. The Local Leo Cold Cloud and New Limits on a Local Hot Bubble


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