The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts – I
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This article is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.The article was published on 1978-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2613 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shock waves in astrophysics & Fermi acceleration.read more
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Cosmic-ray acceleration in supernova remnants: non-linear theory revised
TL;DR: In this article, a self-consistent scenario was proposed to account for the magnetic field amplification induced by supernova streaming, allowing for rather steep spectra and acceleration efficiencies consistent with the hypothesis that SNRs are the sources of Galactic supernova remnants.
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Cosmic ray acceleration
TL;DR: In this article, the basic theory of cosmic ray acceleration by shocks including the plasma instabilities confining cosmic rays near the shock, the effect of the magnetic field orientation, the maximum cosmic ray energy and the shape of the cosmic ray spectrum is described.
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Particle acceleration at shocks moving through an irregular magnetic field
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use non-relativistic, test-particle numerical simulations to address the physics of particle acceleration by collisionless shocks and find that the acceleration rate is weakly dependent on the mean shock normal angle and that low-energy particles are readily accelerated to high energies irrespective of the normal angle.
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Cosmological Shock Waves in the Large Scale Structure of the Universe: Non-gravitational Effects
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the statistics and energy of cosmological simulations of a concordance CDM universe, with a special emphasis on the effects of non-gravitational processes such as radiative cooling, photoionization/heating, and galactic superwind feedbacks.
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Cosmological Shock Waves in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe: Nongravitational Effects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the statistics and energy of cosmological simulations of a concordance ΛCDM universe, with a special emphasis on the effects of nongravitational processes such as radiative cooling, photoionization/heating, and galactic superwind feedbacks.