Nonstochastic prompt proton acceleration by fast magnetosonic shocks in the solar plasma

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Magnetoacoustic Waves, Particle Acceleration, Shock Wave Propagation, Solar Flares, Solar Protons, Solar Wind, Ion Cyclotron Radiation, Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction, Stellar Models

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Theoretical and numerical analyses are carried out for plasma heating and proton acceleration (V x B) due to magnetosonic shock waves (MSW) in the solar plasma. A simple model is developed for V x B acceleration by examining a single-particle orbit in a high-amplitude monochromatic electrostatic wave moving in a direction perpendicular to an external magnetic field. The particle can attain the E x B drift velocity. The model is used to derive the maximum velocity a particle can attain when driven by quasi-parallel and quasi-perpendicular MSW. Acceleration is found to be significantly stronger witn the latter, as is demonstrated with results of a 2.5 dimension simulation of acceleration by a quasi-perpendicular MSW. Implications of the results for modeling coronal heating and proton acceleration by MSWs produced by solar flares are discussed.

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