Particle acceleration at relativistic shocks

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Apr 2001

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HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY: International Symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 558, pp. 392-404 (2001).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Fundamental Aspects Of Astrophysics

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The process of Diffusive Shock Acceleration near (ultra-) relativistic shocks is considered. It is shown that relativistic kinematics limits the energy gain at the shock to ΔE~E per crossing cycle. Like its non-relativistic counterpart, the mechanism is robust in the sense that it produces a power-law spectrum of accelerated particles with a slope s=-d ln N(E)/d ln E~2.2-2.3 under a wide number of circumstances. .

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