Particle Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks

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2002-01-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0201243v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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17 pages, 4 figures. To appear in "Relativistic Flows in Astrophysics", A.W. Guthmann, M. Georganopoulos, A. Marcowith and K.

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I review the current status of Fermi acceleration theory at relativistic shocks. I first discuss the relativistic shock jump conditions, then describe the non-relativistic Fermi mechanism and the differences introduced by relativistic flows. I present numerical calculations of the accelerated particle spectrum, and examine the maximum energy attainable by this process. I briefly consider the minimum energy for Fermi acceleration, and a possible electron pre-acceleration mechanism.

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