Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Feb 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985apj...289..514z&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 289, Feb. 15, 1985, p. 514-525.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
83
Cosmic Plasma, Emission Spectra, Gamma Ray Spectra, Pair Production, Relativistic Plasmas, Thermal Plasmas, X Ray Sources, Active Galactic Nuclei, Compton Effect, Equilibrium Equations, Photon Density, Plasma Equilibrium, Plasma Temperature, Synchrotron Radiation
Scientific paper
A common characteristic of cosmic sources is power-law X-ray emission. Extragalactic sources of this type include compact components of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The present study is concerned with a theoretical model of such sources, taking into account the assumption that the power-law spectra are produced by repeated Compton scatterings of soft photons by relativistic thermal electrons. This is one of several possible physical mechanisms leading to the formation of a power-law spectrum. Attention is given to the Comptonization of soft photon sources, the rates of pair processes, the solution of the pair equilibrium equation, and the constraints on a soft photon source and an energy source. It is concluded that the compactness parameters L/R of most of the cosmic sources observed to date lie below the maximum luminosity curves considered.
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