Non-linear particle acceleration at non-relativistic shock waves in the presence of self-generated turbulence
Abstract
Particle acceleration at astrophysical shocks may be very efficient if magnetic scattering is self-generated by the same particles. This non-linear process adds to the non-linear modification of the shock due to the dynamical reaction of the accelerated particles on the shock. Building on a previous general solution of the problem of particle acceleration with arbitrary diffusion coefficients, we present here the first semi-analytical calculation of particle acceleration with both effects taken into account at the same time; charged particles are accelerated in the background of Alfvén waves that they generate due to the streaming instability, and modify the dynamics of the plasma in the shock vicinity.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- September 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10739.x
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0606592
- Bibcode:
- 2006MNRAS.371.1251A
- Keywords:
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- acceleration of particles: shock waves;
- acceleration of particles;
- shock waves;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- submitted to MNRAS