Electron Acceleration in a Wavy Shock Front

Details Electron Acceleration in a Wavy Shock Front Electron Acceleration in a Wavy Shock Front

Aug 2006

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Cosmic Particle Acceleration, 26th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion 1, 16-17 August, 2006, Prague, Czech Republic, JD01, #39

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It is known that electrons are accelerated at nearly perpendicular shocks by the drift mechanism. And it is also known that energy gain of electrons caused by this mechanism is not very high. Therefore it was suggested in the past that the energy gain might be increased if shocks had wavy fronts. For instance, there were attempts to explain coronal type II burst and their fine structure by electron acceleration in a wavy shock front. We studied numerically electron acceleration at nearly perpendicular shocks. We found that energy gains of electrons at a wavy shock front and a corresponding smoothed plane shock were comparable. That is why they do not depend significantly on the shock thickness, magnetic field profile inside the shock, and shock wavy form; they depend on the angle between the smoothed shock front and ambient magnetic field.

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