Difference between revisions of "Radiative Processes"
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Revision as of 23:16, 11 December 2007
Questions in this category have been asked by HB, PJ
- What are synchrotron, bremsstralung, and cyclotron radiation?
- What are the major absorption and scattering processes?
- Sketch each process and its spectrum.
- What is blackbody radiation?
- What is the typical timescale for Synchrotron cooling?
- For hot plasma emitting X-ray, in what temperature do we observe continuous emission, in what temperature do we observe lines?
- What is the radiative mechanism for the optical emission of the Crab nebular? And what's the energy source for it?
