Abstract
One speaks of cyclotron radiation when the electrons moving in a magnetic field are not relativistic, and of synchrotron radiation when the particle energies are relativistic.
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Courvoisier, T.JL. (2013). Synchrotron Emission. In: High Energy Astrophysics. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30970-0_5
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