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Updated Transfer Coefficients for Magnetized Plasmas

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-11-03 v2

Abstract

Accurate radiative transfer coefficients (emissivities, absorptivities, and rotativities) are needed for modeling radiation from relativistically hot, magnetized plasmas such as those found in Event Horizon Telescope sources. Here we review, update, and correct earlier work on radiative transfer coefficients. We also describe an improved method for numerically evaluating rotativities and provide convenient fitting formulae for the relativistic κ\kappa distribution of electron energies.

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@article{arxiv.2108.10359,
  title  = {Updated Transfer Coefficients for Magnetized Plasmas},
  author = {Andrew Marszewski and Ben S. Prather and Abhishek V. Joshi and Alex Pandya and Charles F. Gammie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10359},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted to ApJ

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