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Hot matter radiates. Low density plasmas also emit radiation in form of spectral lines and inverse continuum bremsstrahlung radiation to a low level. With increasing density and nuclear charge Z production of photons greatly intensifies and is emitted as black body radiation or evolves towards such by multiple interaction with cold dense matter. Its transport and evolution towards a Planckian spectrum is governed by the photon mean free path between two “collisions”.
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Mulser, P. (2020). Radiation from Hot Matter. In: Hot Matter from High-Power Lasers. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61181-4_8
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