Radiative power loss from laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. I. Power loss from plasmas in steady-state ionisation balance
Abstract
The power radiated by an optically thin low-density plasma in steady state ionization balance is calculated taking into account spectral lines, recombination continuum and bremsstrahlung. Calculations were performed in the temperature range 10 to the 4th to 10 to the 10th K for all ions of carbon, oxygen, silicon and argon and for all ions of iron and molybdenum of charge greater than 7 and 23, respectively. The role of impurity radiation loss for a D-T power-producing plasma is investigated and a composite calculation of the radiated power loss from the solar atmosphere is also presented.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular Physics
- Pub Date:
- July 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0022-3700/12/14/022
- Bibcode:
- 1979JPhB...12.2387S
- Keywords:
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- Bremsstrahlung;
- Deuterium Plasma;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Plasma Radiation;
- Rarefied Plasmas;
- Steady State;
- Continuous Radiation;
- Optical Thickness;
- Radiative Transfer;
- Solar Atmosphere;
- Tritium;
- Plasma Physics