The particle and photon spectrum of an optically thick relativistic wind
Abstract
Compact astrophysical sources of energetic particles and photons are somewhat optically thick to particle-particle, particle-photon and photon-photon interactions. These interactions include pair production and annihilation. Compton and inverse Compton scattering, and electron-electron collisions (including bremsstrahlung). We present preliminary results from a calculation in which we evaluate the modulation of an initial source spectrum by these processes in an expanding relativistic electron-photon wind.
- Publication:
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Positron-Electron Pairs in Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- July 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.34117
- Bibcode:
- 1983AIPC..101..382C
- Keywords:
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- Cosmic Plasma;
- Electron Plasma;
- Photon-Electron Interaction;
- Plasma-Particle Interactions;
- Relativistic Plasmas;
- Annihilation Reactions;
- Bremsstrahlung;
- Compton Effect;
- Expansion;
- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Inverse Scattering;
- Pair Production;
- X Ray Sources;
- Astrophysics;
- 95.30.Gv;
- 95.30.Cq;
- Radiation mechanisms;
- polarization;
- Elementary particle processes