Solar Energetic Particle Track-production Rates at 1 au: Comparing In Situ Particle Fluxes with Lunar Sample-derived Track Densities
Heavy ( Z > 26) solar energetic particles (SEPs) with energies ∼1 MeV nucleon ^−1 are known to leave visible damage tracks in meteoritic materials. The density of such “solar flare tracks” in lunar and asteroidal samples has been used as a measure of a sample’s exposure time to space, yielding cr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2023-01-01
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Series: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad0cf6 |