Core hole satellites in NixPd1-x alloys

The two and three hole satellites accompanying the main Ni 2p and Pd 3d XPS core lines in Ni_xPd_1-x alloys have been measured as function of the alloy concentration. The changes in satellite distance with concentration cannot be explained by the thermochemical approach, which has recently been shown to describe successfully the one hole core level binding energy shifts (main line) in alloys. The reason is probably, that in this approach, which uses thermochemical data of Z + 1, Z + 2 and Z + 3 elements - where Z stands for Ni or Pd and Z + n is the nth element following them in the periodic table - d-band contributions to the cohesive energies of the final d-hole states are neglected.