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Title: New probability distributions in astrophysics: IV. The relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution

Abstract: Two relativistic distributions which generalizes the Maxwell Boltzman (MB) distribution are analyzed: the relativistic MB and the Maxwell-J{\"u}ttner (MJ) distribution. For the two distributions we derived in terms of special functions the constant of normalization, the average value, the second moment about the origin, the variance, the mode, the asymptotic behavior, approximate expressions for the average value as function of the temperature and the connected inverted expressions for the temperature as function of the average value. Two astrophysical applications to the synchrotron emission in presence of the magnetic field and the relativistic electrons are presented.
Comments: 15 pages and 17 figures
Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Journal reference: The International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020, 10, 302-318
DOI: 10.4236/ijaa.2020.104016
Cite as: arXiv:2012.05797 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
  (or arXiv:2012.05797v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech] for this version)

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From: Lorenzo Zaninetti [view email]
[v1] Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:32:44 GMT (608kb,D)

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