Cooling Efficiencies
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Cooling efficiency (erg cm3 s-1) versus temperature
for Z from 10-3 to 2 times solar.
(a) Equilibrium cooling. The dominant cooling elements at various
temperatures are indicated near the curves.
(b) Non-equilibrium cooling.
For each Z, two curves are displayed: the lower
curve is for isochoric (IC) cooling, and the upper curve is
isobaric (IB) cooling. The filled circles indicate the temperatures where
time-dependent cooling first deviate from the equilibrium cooling by 5%.
The dotted lines are our power-law fits (see
text).
Constructed: June 2006, Orly Gnat
