The satellite structure for the B Ka emission spectrum of boron oxide has been elucidated by threshold experiments carried out by varying the excitation energy of the incident undulator beam from below the B K absorption edge to several tens of eV above the absorption edge. Prominent emission of the satellite peak was observed when the excitation energy was tuned to the narrow pre-edge peak in the absorption spectrum, corresponding to the transition from BOs) to an unoccupied antibonding pn* orbital. It is concluded that the satellite peak originates from resonant x-ray Raman scattering due to a B(\s)-p7r*-B(\s _1 ) transition.PACS numbers: 78.70.EnRecently, several x-ray emission threshold studies have been investigated especially with respect to satellite structures associated with x-ray emission spectra using monochromatized synchrotron radiation [1][2][3][4]. Resonant Raman scattering was first observed by Sparks [5] from various metallic elements. Resonant emission has also been observed in the L regions of transition metals and their oxide compounds [6,7]. However, only a few attempts [8] have so far been made at the K region of low atomic number elements such as boron, carbon, and nitrogen, because of their low fluorescent yields and lack of the suitable excitation x rays in the VUV/soft-x-ray region.The B Ka emission spectra for boron and its related compounds have been investigated by many researchers with the use of high resolution x-ray emission spectroscopy [9-13]. Most of these spectra were obtained by either electron excitation or x-ray excitation using conventional x-ray sources. In the B Ka emission spectra of boron oxide (B2O3) and boron nitride (BN), satellite peaks are evident at both high-and low-energy sides of the main emission peak due to the B(2/?)-B(l^ _I ) transition. The nature of the low-energy satellites has recently been clarified and assigned to the transition from the molecular orbital with B(2/?) and Oils) or N(2 1 y) character to BOs _I ) core hole [14]. After the submission of this paper, O'Brien et al. [15] reported the excitation energy dependence of B Ka emission spectra of B2O3 and BN using monochromatized synchrotron radiation. They found that the main emission peaks and the low-energy satellites are shifted to lower energy when exciting into the core exciton states. For the high-energy satellites, Luck and Urch [16] observed that the high-energy satellite intensity of several boron oxide compounds correlates with the coordination number of boron. However, the nature of the high-energy satellites has not yet been clearly elucidated.The aim of this study is to investigate the satellite structures in the B Ka emission spectra of boron compounds using highly brilliant undulator radiation as an excitation source. In this paper, the origin of the highenergy satellite in the B Ka emission spectrum of B2O3 is described, which was elucidated by measuring selectively excited B Ka emission spectra using a quasimonochromatic or monochromatic undulator beam.Spectroscopic measurements o...