Radiation Charge Exchange and Radiation Ion-Atom Recombination as a Source of Continual E-M Radiation from Astrophysical Plasma

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We show that for the study of emission from weakly ionized low temperature hydrogen plasmas, the processes A ⁺ + A → A ⁺ + A + ħω and A ⁺ + A → A ⁺ ₂ + ħω (where A denotes a neutral atom in ground state and, A ⁺ and A ⁺ ₂ atomic and molecular ions) must be treaded as a source of continual electro–magnetic radiation from low temperature plasma. Both reaction channels are treated separately and the corresponding total and separate spectral intensities are determined for hydrogen plasma at T < 10000K. The obtained results have been also compared with the corresponding spectral intensities for electron–ion bremsstrahlung and electron–ion photorecombination.