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The first check any new object owes the literature is that it reproduce the literature’s own answer in the case the literature has already solved. For a worldline held at constant proper acceleration a forever, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field in the ordinary vacuum, with the switching left on for all time, the Wightman function depends only on the proper-time separation and the standard Fourier transform is exact and textbook: the excitation-branch rate per unit proper time takes the Bose-Einstein form $\dot{\mathcal F}_a(\Omega) \;\propto\; \frac{\Omega}{e^{2\pi c \Omega / a} - 1}, \qquad \Omega > 0$. with the proportionality constant fixed by the detector’s coupling strength and dimension — irrelevant here, since it cancels the instant the spectrum is…

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