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Spring 2020: Week 02 ASTR/PHYS 5590: High Energy Astrophysics

Week 2

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Lecture material, handouts, and HW posted to the website Chapter 5: Ionization losses by energetic ions plowing through a neutral medium Chapter 6: Radiation losses by energetic electrons getting deflected by ions in a plasma

Spring 2020: Week 02 ASTR/PHYS 5590: High Energy Astrophysics

“Swordy Plot” particle flux of CRs at the Earth

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• Fig. 15.1

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• Fig. 5.1
• Fig. 5.2

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Relativistic Case: Ionization losses

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• Fig. 5.3

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• Fig. 5.4

Non-rel. Relativistic

Spring 2020: Week 02 ASTR/PHYS 5590: High Energy Astrophysics

Bethe-Bloch Formula

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• Fig. 5.5

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Radiation of an accelerated charge

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• Fig. 6.1

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Relativistic Case: electron radiation losses

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• Fig. 5.3

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Spring 2020: Week 02 ASTR/PHYS 5590: High Energy Astrophysics

Bremsstrahlung of a single electron, for a single impact parameter b

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• Fig. 6.2

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Bremsstrahlung emissivity from a thermal distribution

• f electrons

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