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Relativistic Thermal Bremsstrahlung Gaunt Factor for the Intracluster Plasma

Author(s) -

Satoshi Nozawa,

Naoki Itoh,

Yasuharu Kohyama

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

the astrophysical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376

H-Index - 489

eISSN - 1538-4357

pISSN - 0004-637X

DOI - 10.1086/306352

Subject(s) - bremsstrahlung , physics , plasma , electron , quantum electrodynamics , coulomb , form factor (electronics) , relativistic plasma , atomic physics , computational physics , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics

We calculate the relativistic thermal bremsstrahlung Gaunt factor for thehigh-temperature plasma which exists in clusters of galaxies. We calculate theGaunt factor by employing the Bethe-Heitler cross section corrected by theElwert factor. We also calculate the Gaunt factor by using theCoulomb-distorted wave functions for nonrelativistic electrons following themethod of Karzas and Latter. By comparing the Gaunt factors calculated by thesetwo different methods, we carefully assess the accuracy of the calculation. Wepresent the numerical results in the form of tables.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures and 2 tables, submitted to Astrophysical Journa

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