Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Apr 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aipc..558..815s&link_type=abstract
HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY: International Symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 558, pp. 815-818 (2001).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Magnetohydrodynamics And Plasmas
Scientific paper
Magnetic reconnection is one of the most effective particle acceleration processes. Usually this process is described in a simplified analytical way. This implies a homogeneous electrical field, which has its origin in the 2-D-description of the reconnection mechanism. We have done numerical test particle calculations with realistic field configurations. These fields were produced in a 3-D-MHD-Simulation of the reconnection process. Additionally we have considered non thermal energy loss processes; namely synchrotron and inverse Compton losses, which drastically limit the achievable final energy of the particles. 3-D reconnection produces relativistic electron beams with Lorentz factors up to 102-104 depending on the strengths of the energy losses. .
Birk Guido Thorsten
Lesch Harald
Schopper Rüdiger
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