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A note on the complications of the Compton‐Getting effect for low energy charged particle measurements in interplanetary space
Author(s) -
Keppler E.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/gl005i001p00069
Subject(s) - physics , solar wind , interplanetary spaceflight , ion , nuclear physics , atomic physics , charged particle , solar energetic particles , energy (signal processing) , computational physics , particle (ecology) , plasma , quantum mechanics , coronal mass ejection , oceanography , geology
The response of thin window semiconductor detectors to various energetic ions is discussed. Different ions produce response at a given energy loss at different energies per nucleon. The Compton‐Getting effect causes further shifts to lower and higher energy ranges dependent upon direction, hence a particular differential channel may count particles coming from quite different energy ranges in the solar wind frame. The implications of these effects are discussed.