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Relativistic thermal plasmas - Pair processes and equilibriaThe work of Bisnovatyi-Kogan, Zel'dovich and Sunyaev (1971) is extended and generalized, through the inclusion of pair-producing photon processes and effects due to the finite size of the plasma, in an investigation of the equilibria of relativistic thermal plasmas which takes into account electron-positron creation and annihilation and photons produced within the plasma. It is shown that the bridge between an effectively thin plasma and an effectively thick plasma occurs in the transrelativistic region, where the dimensionless temperature value is between 0.1 and 1.0 and the temperature remains in this region over a great luminosity range.
Document ID
19820043780
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Lightman, A. P.
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 10, 2013
Publication Date
February 15, 1982
Publication Information
Publication: Astrophysical Journal
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Accession Number
82A27315
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-246
Distribution Limits
Public
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