Acceleration of electrons in highly compressed modified shocks

Details Acceleration of electrons in highly compressed modified shocks Acceleration of electrons in highly compressed modified shocks

Nov 2005

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ASTROPHYSICAL SOURCES OF HIGH ENERGY PARTICLES AND RADIATION. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 801, pp. 408-409 (2005).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmic Ray Propagation, Shock Waves, Monte Carlo Methods, Cosmic Rays

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We report studies on first-order Fermi acceleration in parallel modified shock waves with a large scattering center compression ratio expected from turbulence transmission models. Using a Monte Carlo technique we have modeled particle acceleration in shocks with a velocity ranging from nonrelativistic to ultrarelativistic and a thickness extending from nearly steplike to very wide structures exceeding the particle diffusion length by orders of magnitude. The nonrelativistic diffusion approximation is found to be surprisingly accurate in predicting the spectral index of a thick shock with large compression ratio even in the cases involving relativistic shock speeds.

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