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Jul 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994apj...429..385k&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 429, no. 1, p. 385-390
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Cosmic Rays, Electron Acceleration, Shock Wave Interaction, Solar Wind, Astronomical Models, Cosmic Plasma, Current Sheets, Plasma Diffusion
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We study the nature of diffusive shock acceleration in the presence of current sheets which are oriented normal to the shock, so that the drift along the sheets carries particles either away from or toward the shock plane. We consider a system with periodic regions of alternating magnetic field direction. This can be taken to be a very crude representation of the termination of the solar wind, with the equator being one sheet and the pole, with its rapid opposite drift, being another. We find very important effects of the current sheets. For example, particle intensities at the shock will be enhanced near one sheet and depressed at the other. Furthermore, the intensity at high energies (averaged over the shock plane) may in fact be considerably larger than in the standard one-dimensional infinite shock case. Implications of these results for the possible acceleration of cosmic electrons up to high energies at the solar-wind termination shock will briefly be discussed.
Jokipii Randy J.
Kota József
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