Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990apj...359..524m&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 359, Aug. 20, 1990, p. 524-540. Previously announced in STAR as N90-12298.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Bremsstrahlung, Kinetic Equations, Nonthermal Radiation, Particle Collisions, Relativistic Electron Beams, Synchrotron Radiation, Angular Distribution, Electron Transfer, Energy Dissipation, Gamma Ray Bursts, Magnetic Fields, Plasma Density, Solar Flares
Scientific paper
For many astrophysical situations, such as in solar flares or cosmic gamma-ray bursts, continuum gamma rays with energies up to hundreds of MeV were observed, and can be interpreted to be due to bremsstrahlung radiation by relativistic electrons. The region of acceleration for these particles is not necessarily the same as the region in which the radiation is produced, and the effects of the transport of the electrons must be included in the general problem. Hence it is necessary to solve the kinetic equation for relativistic electrons, including all the interactions and loss mechanisms relevant at such energies. The resulting kinetic equation for non-thermal electrons, including the effects of Coulomb collisions and losses due to synchrotron emission, was solved analytically in some simple limiting cases, and numerically for the general cases including constant and varying background plasma density and magnetic field. New approximate analytic solutions are presented for collision dominated cases, for small pitch angles and all energies, synchrotron dominated cases, both steady-state and time dependent, for all pitch angles and energies, and for cases when both synchrotron and collisional energy losses are important, but for relativistic electrons. These analytic solutions are compared to the full numerical results in the proper limits. These results will be useful for calculation of spectra and angular distribution of the radiation (X rays, gamma-rays, and microwaves) emitted via synchrotron or bremsstrahlung processes by the electrons. These properties and their relevance to observations will be observed in subsequent papers.
McTiernan James M.
Petrosian Vahe
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