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Bremsstrahlung is a German word meaning radiation from braking. This is also called free-free emission being the emission that free electrons produce when accelerated in the vicinity of ions. It is mainly a thermal process in the sense that the underlying distribution of electrons and ions are thermal. Note, however, that there are cases where this may not be verified and where, therefore, different distributions of particle energy need be considered.
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Courvoisier, T.JL. (2013). Bremsstrahlung. In: High Energy Astrophysics. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30970-0_3
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