Relativistic shock waves and the excitation of plerions

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Jul 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992pip..work...23a&link_type=abstract

Presented at the Physics of Isolated Pulsars Workshop, Taos, NM, 23-28 Feb. 1992

Physics

Excitation, Particle Acceleration, Pulsars, Relativistic Effects, Relativistic Particles, Shock Wave Propagation, Synchrotrons, Electrons, Heavy Ions, Magnetic Fields, Magnetohydrodynamics, Nebulae, Photons, Positrons

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In relativistic shocks, the mechanisms of high energy particle acceleration and of basic thermalization can be one and the same -- accelerating relativistic particles can be part of the problem of shock structure itself. In fact, the highest energy electrons and positrons in the shock theory we outline below are those which have Larmor radii comparable to the gyro-radii of the heavy ions which control the shock thickness, and are precisely the e(plus minus) which give rise to the highest energy synchrotron photons observed in the nebular spectrum. Thus, the problems of shock structure and of nonthermal particle acceleration are one and the same.

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