Long-wavelength MHD instability in the prefront of collisionless shocks with accelerated particles

Details Long-wavelength MHD instability in the prefront of collisionless shocks with accelerated particles Long-wavelength MHD instability in the prefront of collisionless shocks with accelerated particles

Aug 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009astl...35..555b&link_type=abstract

Astronomy Letters, Volume 35, Issue 8, pp.555-563

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Collisionless shocks in turbulent space plasmas accelerate particles by the Fermi mechanism to ultrarelativistic energies. The interaction of accelerated particles with the plasma inflow produces extended supersonic MHD flows of multicomponent plasma. We investigate the instabilities of a flow of three-component turbulent plasma with relativistic particles against long-wavelength perturbations with scales larger than the accelerated particle transport mean free path and the initial turbulence scales. The presence of turbulence allows us to formulate the system of single-fluid equations, the equation of motion for the medium as a whole, and the induction equation for the magnetic field with turbulent magnetic and kinematic viscosities. The current of accelerated particles enters into the induction equation with an effective magnetic diffusion coefficient. We have calculated the local growth rates of the perturbations related to the nonresonant long-wavelength instability of the current of accelerated particles for MHD perturbations in the WKB approximation. The amplification of long-wavelength magnetic field perturbations in the flow upstream of the shock front can affect significantly the maximum energies of the particles accelerated by a collisionless shock and can lead to the observed peculiarities of the synchrotron X-ray radiation in supernova remnants.

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