Cosmic Ray Acceleration at Relativistic Shock Waves
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Theory of the first-order Fermi acceleration of cosmic ray particles at relativistic shock waves is reviewed. We consider shocks with parallel and oblique, sub- and super-luminal magnetic field configurations and with finite-amplitude magnetic field perturbations. A role of oblique field configurations and field perturbations in forming the cosmic ray energy spectrum and changing the acceleration time scale is discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9610189,
title = {Cosmic Ray Acceleration at Relativistic Shock Waves},
author = {M. Ostrowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9610189},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
TeX, 11 pages + 6 postscript figures; a review to be published in Proc. ICRR Symposium on Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays, ed. M. Nagano, Tanashi