Relativistic thermal plasmas - Pair processes and equilibria

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Feb 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982apj...253..842l&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 253, Feb. 15, 1982, p. 842-858.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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108

Electron Plasma, Pair Production, Plasma Equilibrium, Positron Annihilation, Relativistic Plasmas, Thermal Plasmas, Electron Scattering, Gamma Rays, Particle Acceleration, Photons, Trapped Particles

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The 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.

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