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    The Acceleration of Charged Particles at a Spherical Shock Moving through an Irregular Magnetic Field

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    Author
    Giacalone, J.
    Affiliation
    Univ Arizona, Dept Planetary Sci
    Issue Date
    2017-10-23
    Keywords
    acceleration of particles
    ISM: magnetic fields
    ISM: supernova remnants
    shock waves
    Sun: heliosphere
    turbulence
    
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    IOP PUBLISHING LTD
    Citation
    The Acceleration of Charged Particles at a Spherical Shock Moving through an Irregular Magnetic Field 2017, 848 (2):123 The Astrophysical Journal
    Journal
    The Astrophysical Journal
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    © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
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    Abstract
    We investigate the physics of charged-particle acceleration at spherical shocks moving into a uniform plasma containing a turbulent magnetic field with a uniform mean. This has applications to particle acceleration at astrophysical shocks, most notably, to supernovae blast waves. We numerically integrate the equations of motion of a large number of test protons moving under the influence of electric and magnetic fields determined from a kinematically defined plasma flow associated with a radially propagating blast wave. Distribution functions are determined from the positions and velocities of the protons. The unshocked plasma contains a magnetic field with a uniform mean and an irregular component having a Kolmogorov-like power spectrum. The field inside the blast wave is determined from Maxwell's equations. The angle between the average magnetic field and unit normal to the shock varies with position along its surface. It is quasi-perpendicular to the unit normal near the sphere's equator, and quasi-parallel to it near the poles. We find that the highest intensities of particles, accelerated by the shock, are at the poles of the blast wave. The particles "collect" at the poles as they approximately adhere to magnetic field lines that move poleward from their initial encounter with the shock at the equator, as the shock expands. The field lines at the poles have been connected to the shock the longest. We also find that the highest-energy protons are initially accelerated near the equator or near the quasi-perpendicular portion of the shock, where the acceleration is more rapid.
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    1538-4357
    DOI
    10.3847/1538-4357/aa8df1
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    Final published version
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    NASA [NNX15AJ71G, NNX15AJ72G]; NSF [AGS1135432]
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