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Non-thermal radiative pair plasmas: processes and spectra

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study the emission and absorption spectra due to various photon and pair processes in a non-equilibrium pair plasma containing a significant density of photons. We present here some preliminary results from Monte-Carlo simulations. These investigations are likely to be useful in understanding the radiation and relaxation mechanisms in non-thermal gamma-ray sources in astrophysics.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9505072,
  title  = {Non-thermal radiative pair plasmas: processes and spectra},
  author = {Ravi P. Pilla and Jacob Shaham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9505072},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages, uuencoded postscript file

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