Inverse Compton Scattering – Revisited
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An important radiative process, used in several astrophysical contexts to generate high energy photons, is the inverse compton scattering. In this process, relativistic electrons transfer part of their kinetic energy to low energy photons thereby creating high energy photons. Conventional text book derivation (Rybicki & Lightman 1979) of this process uses the photon picture, kinematics of electron-photon scattering and a judicious choice of Lorentz transformations to arrive at the final result: the net energy transferred per second from electron to photons is
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