Extended Data Fig. 1: X-ray spectrum of argon gas puff source.
From: Simulation of asteroid deflection with a megajoule-class X-ray pulse
The main panel shows the measured x-ray spectrum (black) and ±1-σ uncertainty bounds (shaded). The inset shows the spectrum after numerical propagation through the beryllium x-ray filter used in the experiment, that is, incident onto the silica targets, on a linear scale, showing that the spectrum reaching the target predominantly consists of K-shell line emission from the argon plasma.
