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Particle Spectra Of Ultra-Relativistic Shock Waves

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Numerical Monte Carlo simulations of the diffusive shock acceleration in the test particle limit are investigated. We simulate high relativistic flow astrophysical plasmas for upstream γ\gamma 5\sim5 and up to γ\gamma 1000\sim1000. These gamma values are relevant to the diffusive shock acceleration models of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). The spectral shape for the above high relativistic processes will be calculated. This work presents distinctive spectral shapes with plateau-like characteristics due to the relativistic effects and the spectral indexes are found to be as flat as the flow becomes relativistic; the latter is in a very good agreement with previous theoretical and numerical works concerning relativistic plasma flows.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0101246,
  title  = {Particle Spectra Of Ultra-Relativistic Shock Waves},
  author = {Athina Meli and John Quenby},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0101246},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages, 8 postscript figures, results presented in the 17th European Cosmic Ray Symposium (ECRS) Lodz, Poland (2000)