Estimation of plasma temperature from recombination continuum
- 15 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 34 (4) , 247-248
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.90768
Abstract
The reliability of the estimation of plasma temperature for a carbon plasma from bremsstrahlung emissions has been assessed using the steady‐state corona model for the ionization states. It is observed that even at a temperature as high as 225 eV the temperature estimated from the bremsstrahlung continuum can give an error as high as 55%, whereas the temperature estimated from the recombination continuum can be taken as the true temperature of the plasma.Keywords
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