Updated Transfer Coefficients for Magnetized Plasmas

Abstract

Accurate radiative transfer coefficients (emissivities, absorptivities, and rotativities) are needed for modeling radiation from relativistically hot, magnetized plasmas such as those found in Event Horizon Telescope sources. Here we review, update, and correct earlier work on radiative transfer coefficients. We also describe an improved method for numerically evaluating rotativities and provide convenient fitting formulae for the relativistic $\kappa$ distribution of electron energies.

arXiv comment14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted to ApJ

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