Abstract
The rate of energy transfer due to Compton collisions from a photon gas to a Maxwell electron gas is calculated to fourth order in the expansion parameters kTemc2 and kTRmc2. The photon distribution is taken to be Planckian at a temperature TR not equal to the electron temperature Te. It is found that the nonrelativistic expression is accurate only for kTR≤2.5 keV and kTe≤20 keV, while the fourth-order expression is accurate for kTR≤10 keV and kTe≤80 keV.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2731-2734 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| State | Published - Jan 1 1970 |