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The Vacuum Electromagnetic Field and the Energetics of the Intergalactic Medium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

A. Rueda
A. Rueda*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics University of Puerto Rico at Humacao P.O. Box 10058, College Station Humacao, PR 00661

Abstract

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The equilibrium distribution for a low-density infinite system of electromagnetically (EM) interacting particles placed in euclidean space in equilibrium with the Lorentz-invariant (LI) zero-point field (ZPF) is also LI with an energy density ρ(E)dE Ã E−1dE. This result follows semiclassically as well as quantum theoretically (QT). Such an idea is exploited to propose a means for energizing the intergalactic medium (IGM) and thus explain the X-ray background (XRB) as thermal bremsstrahlung (TB) of a 3 × 108 K thermally excited electron gas confirming observation (see, e.g., Marshall et al. 1980; Boldt 1987).

Type
IV. Extragalactic Background Radiation and Cosmology
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 139: The Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation , 1990 , pp. 424 - 425
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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