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Numerical fits to important rates in high temperature astrophysical plasmas
Abstract
We give simple but accurate numerical fits to various two-body rates in relativistic thermal plasmas, in the temperature range |$kT_\text e \sim 50\enspace \text{keV}-1\enspace\text{MeV}$|. The processes we discuss are bremsstrahlung, Coulomb heating and electron–positron pair production and annihilation. In particular we present a fit to the thermal electron–electron bremsstrahlung spectrum which is accurate to better than 5 per cent. We also include the results of some other workers, for completeness. Our results are suitable for semi-analytic or computer modelling of hot plasmas.
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- Authors
- Stepney, S., & Guilbert, P. W.
- Venue
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1983-10-01
- Volume
- 204
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1269-1277
- ISSN
- 0035-8711 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2966
- OpenAlex
- W2000302353
- Cited by
- 178
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 1.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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