Relativistic Thermal Bremsstrahlung Gaunt Factor for the Intracluster Plasma. III. Analytic Fitting Formula for the Nonrelativistic Exact Gaunt Factor

1999/06/29 by Naoki Itoh, Itoh, Naoki, Shugo Kusano +7
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Atomic and Molecular Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906467

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Abstract

We present an accurate analytic fitting formula for the thermal bremsstrahlung Gaunt factor in the nonrelativistic limit. The fitting formula excellently reproduces the numerical results of the calculation carried out by the present authors using the method of Karzas and Latter. The present analytic fitting formula will be useful for the analysis of the X-ray emission which comes from the intracluster plasmas with relatively low temperatures as well as the other X-ray sources.

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