RADIATIVE SIGNATURES OF RELATIVISTIC SHOCKS
Particle-in-cell simulations of relativistic, weakly magnetized collisionless shocks show that particles can gain energy by repeatedly crossing the shock front. This requires scattering off self-generated small length-scale magnetic fluctuations. The radiative signature of this first-order Fermi acc...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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