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On the causes of temperature change in inhomogeneous low-density astrophysical plasmasThe temperature changes that are possible in inhomogeneous low-density astrophysical plasmas were investigated for a variety of boundary distribution functions that occur in astrophysics, with emphasis placed on the spatial changes in temperature and their correlations with those of the density caused by time-independent, but spatially varying, conservative potentials. It is proven that decelerating forces produce equilibrium temperatures that are anticorrelated with densities, provided that the boundary condition is non-Maxwellian, and the proof is extended analytically for a generalized Lorentzian distribution, showing that they obey a polytrope relation with the value of gamma between 0 and l.
Document ID
19930026607
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Scudder, Jack D.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
October 10, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: Astrophysical Journal, Part 1
Volume: 398
Issue: 1
ISSN: 0004-637X
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Accession Number
93A10604
Distribution Limits
Public
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