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The process of Compton scattering $\gamma e^{\pm} \to \gamma e^{\pm}$ in a strongly magnetized medium of arbitrary temperature and zeroth chemical potential was considered. The analytical expressions for the partial cross section in the…
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We showed that if the non-thermal emission from the Galactic center in the range 14-40 keV is due to inverse bremsstrahlung emission of subrelativistic protons, their interactions with hot and cold fractions of the interstellar medium are…
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We study the Compton scattering in the noncommutative counter part of QED (NC QED). Interactions in NC QED have momentum dependent phase factors and the gauge fields have Yang Mills type couplings, this modifies the cross sections and are…
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Multi-group method is an accepted technique for approximately solving the equation of radiative transfer. In this paper, group averaged transfer scattering cross sections, required for solving the equation of radiative transfer in a…
Formulas for calculation of transversal dielectric function and transversal electric conductivity in quantum non-degenerate collisional plasmas under arbitrary degree of degeneracy of the electron gas are received. The…
The limit on the intrinsic brightness temperature, attributed to `Compton catastrophe', has been established being $10^{12}$~K. Somewhat lower limit of the order of $10^{11.5}$~K is implied if we assume that the radiating plasma is in…
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We study the spectrum of high frequency radiation emerging from mildly dissipative photospheres of long-duration gamma-ray burst outflows. Building on the results of recent numerical investigations, we assume that electrons are heated…