When the ratio of energy loss via inverse Compton emission to energy loss via this phenomenon is greater than 1, it results in the "inverse Compton catastrophe", which puts a brightness limit on stationary sources of it.
A coherent form of this phenomenon is impossible in media with a refractive index of unity, ruling out masers based on it in a vacuum. When the ratio of energy loss via inverse Compton emission to energy loss via this phenomenon is greater than 1, it results in the "inverse Compton catastrophe", which puts a brightness limit on stationary sources of it. This phenomenon undergoes self-absorption past the peak of its spectrum, which occurs at point two nine times the critical frequency. In an astrophysical plasma whose plasma frequency is greater than this phenomenon's frequency divided by gamma, this phenomenon is suppressed in the (*) Razin effect. The degree of polarization of this phenomenon is equal to the spectral index plus 1 over the spectral index plus 5/3. This phenomenon typically displays a steep negative spectral index. This phenomenon displays beaming in a cone of width of one over gamma, and follows a continuous power-law distribution across a broad range of frequencies. Jet emissions from active galactic nuclei are believed to be this, because said emissions are highly linearly polarized, as opposed to thermal emission. For 10 points, name this relativistic analogue of cyclotron radiation.
A coherent form of this phenomenon is impossible in media with a refractive index of unity, ruling out masers based on it in a vacuum.
synchrotron radiation