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An expression has been developed which gives the flux of unvetoed Compton-contamination events for a particular source measurement using an actively shielded gamma-ray telescope. By use of suitable approximations, this expression reduces to simpler functions which have been evaluated for some recent measurements of the Crab nebula. It has been shown that for the exposures typical of balloon-borne observations, and a reasonably efficient anti-coincidence system (>50%), the non-photopeak component of the detected source energy-loss spectrum can be neglected.
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Owens, A. Evaluation of Compton contamination events in an actively shielded Ge gamma-ray detector. Astrophys Space Sci 112, 75–81 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00668410
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