http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00140
Comptonization is a very important phenomenon in astrophysics. Kompaneets equation describes up-Comptonization process in nonrelativistic astrophysics, while it fails for down-Comptonization Scattering which is the most important radiative transfer process in hard X-rays and $\gamma$-rays astronomy. In this study, we explore both up-Comptonization and down-Comptonization processes. A new relativistic corrections is introduced to the Kompaneets equation which is valid in both nonrelativistic energy regime with the photon energy $h\nu << m_ec^2$ and the electron temperature $KT_e << m_ec^2$. Numerical comparisons are presented which show excellent agreement between the Kompaneets equation and the new equation.
X. Zhang and X. Chen
Wed, 2 Sep 15
8/87
Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures
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