Sonoluminescence: Nature's Smallest BlackBody
Fluid Dynamics
2009-11-06 v1 Plasma Physics
Abstract
The Spectrum of the light emitted by a sonoluminescing bubble is extremely well fit by the spectrum of a blackbody. Furthermore the radius of emission can be smaller than the wavelength of the light. Consequences, for theories of sonoluminescence are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0009057,
title = {Sonoluminescence: Nature's Smallest BlackBody},
author = {G. Vazquez and C. Camara and S. Putterman and K. Weninger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0009057},
year = {2009}
}
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8 pages, 3 Figures