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We present results of semi-analytic calculations which show clear evidence for changes in the non-equilibrium ionization behind a supernova remnant forward shock undergoing efficient diffusive shock acceleration (DSA). The efficient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Daniel J. Patnaude , Donald C. Ellison , Patrick Slane

Diffusive shock acceleration at collisionless shocks remains the most likely process for accelerating particles in a variety of astrophysical sources. While the standard prediction for strong shocks is that the spectrum of accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Pierre Cristofari , Pasquale Blasi , Damiano Caprioli

We develop a method of stochastic differential equation to simulate electron acceleration at astrophysical shocks. Our method is based on It\^{o}'s stochastic differential equations coupled with a particle splitting, employing a skew…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-09 Ryo Yamazaki , Tatsuo Yoshida , Yuka Tsuchihashi , Ryosuke Nakajima , Yutaka Ohira , Shohei Yanagita

We study particle acceleration in strongly turbulent pair plasmas using novel 3D Particle-in-Cell simulations, featuring particle injection from an external heat bath and diffusive escape. We demonstrate the formation of steady-state,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Daniel Grošelj , Fabio Bacchini

Energetic particles spectra at interplanetary shocks often exhibit a power law within a narrow momentum range softening at higher energy. We introduce a transport equation accounting for particle acceleration and escape with diffusion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Federico Fraschetti

The dynamical reaction of the particles accelerated at a shock front by the first order Fermi process can be determined within kinetic models that account for both the hydrodynamics of the shocked fluid and the transport of the accelerated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Blasi , S. Gabici , G. Vannoni

In this paper we study pattern formation arising in a system of a single reaction-diffusion equation coupled with subsystem of ordinary differential equations, describing spatially-distributed growth of clonal populations of precancerous…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-14 Yuriy Golovaty , Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Mariya Ptashnyk

We consider reaction-diffusion equations that are stochastically forced by a small multiplicative noise term. We show that spectrally stable travelling wave solutions to the deterministic system retain their orbital stability if the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-09 C. H. S. Hamster , H. J. Hupkes

We investigate the large-time behavior of solutions to an outflow problem of the full compressible Navier-Stokes equations in the half line. The non-degenerate stationary solution is shown to be asymptotically stable under large initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Ling Wan , Tao Wang , Qingyang Zou

The limits imposed on diffusive shock acceleration by upstream ion-neutral Alfven wave damping, and by ionisation and Coulomb losses of low energy particles, are calculated. Analytic solutions are given for the steady upstream wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 L O'C Drury , P Duffy , J G Kirk

In this paper we investigate stability of travelling wave solutions to a class of reaction-diffusion equations perturbed by infinite-dimensional additive noise with H\"older continuous paths, covering in particular fractional Brownian…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Amjad Saef , Wilhelm Stannat

Classically encountered problem of acceleration runaway in radiative motion of a charged-particle is addressed by considering the criterion of minimum radiation loss under optimum displacement in variationally referred dynamic course in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 D. Das

The momentum distribution of particles accelerated at strong non-relativistic shocks may be influenced by the spatial distribution of the flow speed around the shock. This phenomenon becomes evident in the cosmic-ray modified shock, where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-14 O. Petruk , T. Kuzyo

Diffusive shock acceleration at collisionless shocks is thought to be the source of many of the energetic particles observed in space. Large-scale spatial variations of the magnetic field has been shown to be important in understanding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Guo , J. R. Jokipii , J. Kota

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to accelerate particles up to high energies through the mechanism of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA). Except for direct plasma simulations, all modeling efforts must rely on a given form of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Gilles Ferrand , Rebecca J. Danos , Andreas Shalchi , Samar Safi-Harb , Paul Edmon , Peter Mendygral

We study relaxation towards a stationary out of equilibrium state by analizing a one-dimensional stochastic process followed by a particle accelerated by an external field and propagating through a thermal bath. The effect of collisions is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-17 Angel Alastuey , Jaroslaw Piasecki

Powerful stellar winds and supernova explosions with intense energy release in the form of strong shock waves can convert a sizeable part of the kinetic energy release into energetic particles. The starforming regions are argued as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 A. M. Bykov , P. E. Gladilin , S. M. Osipov

The equations of secular evolution for dust grains in mean motion resonances with a planet are solved for stationary points. This is done including both Poynting-Robertson effect and stellar wind. The solutions are stationary in semimajor…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-20 Pavol Pastor

We consider the motion of planar phase-transition fronts in first-order phase transitions of the Universe. We find the steady state wall velocity as a function of a friction coefficient and thermodynamical parameters, taking into account…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-17 Ariel Megevand , Alejandro D. Sanchez

We discuss a semi-analytical solution of the transport equation for electrons at a non-relativistic shock in the presence of synchrotron energy losses. We calculate the spectrum of accelerated (test) particles at any point upstream and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Pasquale Blasi