Dear list,

I was looking at the XANES standard for Fe foil from Hephaestus and I noticed that there was a small, curved feature at the edge (7112 eV), another inflection point at 7116.4 eV, and then the edge step at around 7131 eV. My question is: why is the feature at 7112 eV considered as the edge and not as a pre-edge feature? Are they due to fundamentally different phenomena? I would like to understand where this type of feature comes from so as to be consistent in the current paper that I am writing. I have attached the standard, just in case.

Thanks
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Aditya Shivprasad

aps202@psu.edu
Ph.D Candidate
Nuclear Engineering Department
Pennsylvania State University