Fig. 5.

RASCAS simulations of single-scattering events in a H I medium with T = 100 K assuming isotropic angular redistribution and no recoil effect. Top: frequency redistribution, R(xin, xout), in Doppler units (xout) of Lyman-α photons emitted at xin after one single-scattering on a hydrogen atom. The solid coloured curves are the results from RASCAS assuming xin = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8, while the dashed black lines are the analytic solutions of Hummer (1962). Bottom: accuracy of R(xin, xout) from RASCAS compared to the solution of Hummer (1962) as a function of xout. Here σ is the relative error between R(xin, xout) obtained from RASCAS and the solution of Hummer (1962), and σp is the relative Poisson error in each bin of xout due the limited number of photons used in this simulation (). In each sub-panel, the solid black curves show the mean value of σ/σp.
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