Relativistic Thermal Bremsstrahlung Gaunt Factor for the Intracluster Plasma. II. Heavy Elements
Loading...
Date
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
Description
We calculate the relativistic thermal bremsstrahlung Gaunt factor for the high-temperature plasma which exists in clusters of galaxies. We calculate the Gaunt factor by employing the Bethe-Heitler cross section corrected by the Elwert factor. The calculations in this paper are made for the fully ionized plasma for the following cases: Z = 10 (Ne), 12 (Mg), 14 (Si), 16 (S), 26 (Fe). We also calculate the Gaunt factor by using the Coulomb-distorted wave functions for nonrelativistic electrons following the method of Karzas and Latter. By comparing the Gaunt factors calculated by these two different methods, we carefully assess the accuracy of the calculation. We present the numerical results in the form of tables.
15 pages + 2 tables + 3 figures, LaTeX with AASMS macro, Submitted to Astrophysical Journal for publication
15 pages + 2 tables + 3 figures, LaTeX with AASMS macro, Submitted to Astrophysical Journal for publication