Published April 1, 1981
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Compton scattering in a converging fluid flow - I. The transfer equation
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Blandford, R. D.
- Payne, D. G.
Abstract
The equations describing Compton scattering in an optically thick fluid flow are derived under the diffusion approximation. The relative importance of the bulk and random motions of the scattering electrons is discussed. In a converging fluid flow of speed u, bulk acceleration of photons dominates thermal Comptonization when u ≳ (12kT_e/m_e)^(1/2).
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© 1981 Royal Astronomical Society. Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System. Received 1980 August 20; in original form 1980 June 3. This work was supported in part by NSF grant AST78-05484. We thank the referee for his careful reading of the paper. RB thanks the Director and staff of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, where part of this work was carried out, for their hospitality.Attached Files
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