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Caption: Figure 1.
Optical depth for the two-photon annihilation (﹩{\tau }_{\gamma \gamma {\rm{,}}{e}^{+}{e}^{-}}﹩) and effective optical depths for photomeson production (fpγ), Bethe–Heitler pair production (fBH), and inelastic proton–proton collisions (fpp) for two values of τT. The emission radius is set to R = 10RS. For the photomeson production, the Bethe–Heitler process, and proton–proton collisions, the proton escape timescale is set to t* = 100R/c.
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