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Raman scattering of photons in the solar interior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

V. N. Tsytovich
Affiliation:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K.
R. Bingham
Affiliation:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K.
U. de Angelis
Affiliation:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, U.K.

Abstract

We reconsider the transport equation in the solar interior and calculate the effects on the opacity of photon scattering near the Raman resonance. Both spontaneous and stimulated scattering on thermal photons and thermal plasmons are taken into account, and changes in opacity (with respect to previous calculations) are calculated numerically and found to be negligible with respect to relativistic corrections to photon scattering.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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