Relativistic shock acceleration and some consequences
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-06-18 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Plasma Physics
Abstract
This paper summarizes recent progresses in our theoretical understanding of particle acceleration at relativistic shock waves and it discusses two salient consequences: (1) the maximal energy of accelerated particles; (2) the impact of the shock-generated micro-turbulence on the multi-wavelength light curves of gamma-ray burst afterglows.
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@article{arxiv.1401.7423,
title = {Relativistic shock acceleration and some consequences},
author = {M. Lemoine and G. Pelletier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.7423},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages,1 figure. To appear in the Proceedings of the HEPRO IV (High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows) Conference (Heidelberg, Germany, July 2013), eds. F. Rieger and F. Aharonian, in Int. J. Mod. Phys. Conf. Ser