Acceleration of cosmic rays in supernova-remnants

Details Acceleration of cosmic rays in supernova-remnants Acceleration of cosmic rays in supernova-remnants

Aug 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985icrc....3..136d&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center 19th Intern. Cosmic Ray Conf., Vol. 3 p 136-139 (SEE N85-34862 23-93)

Physics

Acceleration (Physics), Cosmic Rays, Shock Waves, Supernova Remnants, Distribution Functions, Hydrodynamic Equations, Interstellar Radiation, Nonlinearity, Relativistic Plasmas, Stellar Models, Time Dependence

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It is commonly accepted that supernova-explosions are the dominant source of cosmic rays up to an energy of 10 to the 14th power eV/nucleon. Moreover, these high energy particles provide a major contribution to the energy density of the interstellar medium (ISM) and should therefore be included in calculations of interstellar dynamic phenomena. For the following the first order Fermi mechanism in shock waves are considered to be the main acceleration mechanism. The influence of this process is twofold; first, if the process is efficient (and in fact this is the cas) it will modify the dynamics and evolution of a supernova-remnant (SNR), and secondly, the existence of a significant high energy component changes the overall picture of the ISM. The complexity of the underlying physics prevented detailed investigations of the full non-linear selfconsistent problem. For example, in the context of the energy balance of the ISM it has not been investigated how much energy of a SN-explosion can be transfered to cosmic rays in a time-dependent selfconsistent model. Nevertheless, a lot of progress was made on many aspects of the acceleration mechanism.

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