Stimulated comption effect in very compact radio sources
Abstract
Expressions for the stimulated Compton effect are derived that are complete to order γ/ge/μ, where ɛ is the photon energy in the laboratory system, and γμ=γm 0 C 2 is the electron energy. Explicit formulas are given for the energy flow between a relativistic electron and a radiation field that obeys a power law so that the number of photons is proportional to ɛ-m-1. The amount of energy gained by an electron per second is then numerically calculated for conditions suggested by very compact radio sources as a function of the width of the spectrum, the spectral index, and the electron energy.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- March 1971
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00649686
- Bibcode:
- 1971Ap&SS..10..431O