title: Theory of light emission in sonoluminescence as thermal radiation.
abstract: Based on the model proposed by Hilgenfeldt [Nature (London) 398, 401 (1999)], we present here a comprehensive theory of thermal radiation in single-bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL). We first invoke the generalized Kirchhoff's law to obtain the thermal emissivity from the absorption cross section of a multilayered sphere (MLS). A sonoluminescing bubble, whose internal structure is determined from hydrodynamic simulations, is then modeled as a MLS and in turn the thermal radiation is evaluated. Numerical results obtained from simulations for argon bubbles show that our theory successfully captures the major features observed in SBSL experiments.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department and Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Wang-Kong
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Tse
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Leung