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Transport of strongly comptonized radiation

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For strongly Comptonized radiation in a nonrelativistic plasma, we calculate the bremsstrahlung source of Comptonized photons with an accurate allowance for free-free absorption and nonlinear stimulated Compton emission. We formulate radiation hydrodynamics equations that are valid in the limit of strong Compton energy exchange between plasma and radiation. We derive a formula for the energy dissipation rate under these conditions. For an optically thick region, we have found an equation that describes the spatial variation in the exponential fall-off factor of the radiation spectrum.

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  1. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700, Russia

    S. A. Wagner

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Translated from Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 126, No. 4, 2004, pp. 849–856.

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Wagner, S.A. Transport of strongly comptonized radiation. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 99, 733–740 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1826164

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