We produce soft X-ray images of near-Earth space with a global hybrid-Vlasov simulation with southward interplanetary magnetic field• Flux transfer events can produce X-ray signatures despite being transient phenomena if they cumulatively increase the proton density locally• Mirror-mode structures in the magnetosheath can also produce soft X-ray signatures in time-integrated images
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