Cyclotron line formation in a hot plasma including Compton cooling

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Jan 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987a%26a...172..241r&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 172, no. 1-2, Jan. 1987, p. 241-250.

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Compton Effect, Cyclotron Radiation, High Temperature Plasmas, Line Spectra, Plasma Cooling, Pulsars, Computational Astrophysics, Particle Diffusion, Radiative Transfer, Stellar Mass Accretion, X Ray Sources

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As a first step toward developing a more self-consistent model of an emission region for a magnetic neutron star, radiative transfer of photons in a strongly magnetized plasma is treated in the diffusion approximation for nonrelativistic plasma temperatures and photon energies. A frequency redistribution function is derived that is valid both in the continuum and at the cyclotron frequency. Numerical calculations are presented for a slab in which the temperature is consistently determined by Compton cooling. The temperature profiles show two characteristic length scales corresponding to the escape of photons in the continuum and in the cyclotron line.

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