The acceleration of low energy protons by quasi-perpendicular interplanetary shocks

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Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Particle Acceleration, Protons, Satellite-Borne Instruments, Shock Wave Propagation, Angular Distribution, Computerized Simulation, International Sun Earth Explorers

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Observations are presented of pitch-angle distributions as a function of energy, and omnidirectional energy spectra of particles, measured in 1978-1979 for six interplanetary shock events with the low-energy directional proton spectrometer aboard the ISEE-3 spacecraft. Using time reversed numerical simulation of the scatter-free acceleration of charged particles through shocks, it was found that, for simple planar geometries of the magnetic field and for a power-law spectrum of preaccelerated particles, the predicted omnidirectional enhacements were smaller than the ones observed. It is suggested that fluctuations in the magnetic field might seriously affect the acceleration process.

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