Cosmic Ray Acceleration by Spiral Shocks in the Galactic Wind

Details Cosmic Ray Acceleration by Spiral Shocks in the Galactic Wind Cosmic Ray Acceleration by Spiral Shocks in the Galactic Wind

2004-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401368v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LATEX, 14 pages, 7 figures, accepted to A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20040018

Cosmic ray acceleration by shocks related with Slipping Interaction Regions (SIRs) in the Galactic Wind is considered. SIRs are similar to Solar Wind Corotating Interaction Regions. The spiral structure of our Galaxy results in a strong nonuniformity of the Galactic Wind flow and in SIR formation at distances of 50 to 100 kpc. SIRs are not corotating with the gas and magnetic field because the angular velocity of the spiral pattern differs from that of the Galactic rotation. It is shown that the collective reacceleration of the cosmic ray particles with charge $Ze$ in the resulting shock ensemble can explain the observable cosmic ray spectrum beyond the "knee" up to energies of the order of $10^{17}Z$ eV. For the reaccelerated particles the Galactic Wind termination shock acts as a reflecting boundary.

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