Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1685678 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms | 2007 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Laboratory measurements simulating the impact of certain solar wind ions on CO have been made. Preliminary analysis of the X rays in the 50-300 eV energy range produced by these collisions suggests that a dominant role is played by electron capture and subsequent relaxation of the electron to the n = 2 levels of solar wind ions such as Ne and S. In particular our data show that X rays from Ne play a role that is at least as significant as that of the more dominant solar wind ion O6+ in this X-ray energy range. It may be assumed that Mg and Si may also play an important role; however, these ions were not included in the present experiment.
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Authors
C.J. Verzani, K. Miller, A. Wrigley, Q. Kessel, W.W. Smith, S.J. Smith, S. Hossain, A. Chutjian,