The radiative transfer equations for Compton scattering of polarized low-frequency radiation on a hot electron gas

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 306, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 153-160

  Hansen, Frode K ^a,b   Lilje, Per B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Galaxies: clusters: general; Polarization; Radiative transfer; Scattering

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; ELECTRON GAS; ELECTRONS; HOT ELECTRONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

AXISYMMETRIC; COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; ELECTRON VELOCITY; GALAXIES: CLUSTERS: GENERAL; LOW FREQUENCY RADIATION; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MAXWELLIAN VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS; POLARIZED RADIATION; SECOND ORDERS; TRANSFER EQUATION;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 0008547766     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02487.x     Document Type: Article

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