Acceleration of cosmic rays by colliding galaxies

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Jun 1998

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Workshop on observing giant cosmic ray air showers from >1020 eV particles from space. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 433, p

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Cosmic Rays, Interacting Galaxies, Galaxy Pairs, And Triples

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It has been suggested that colliding galaxy pairs could produce cosmic rays with energies >=1019 electron volts. We investigate such a system to see if such energies are likely. We find that there is a typical scale energy associated with a large moving magnetic field structure that is the same whether it is in the form of a diffusive plasma shock or a more regular field structure with little or no irregularity. This scaling leads to the conclusion that such energies as suggested are unlikely to be produced by colliding galaxies.

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