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Using large-scale fully-kinetic two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we investigate the effects of shock rippling on electron acceleration at low-Mach-number shocks propagating in high-$\beta$ plasmas, in application to merger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Oleh Kobzar , Jacek Niemiec , Takanobu Amano , Masahiro Hoshino , Shuichi Matsukiyo , Yosuke Matsumoto , Martin Pohl

We examine the applicability of the stochastic electron acceleration to two high synchrotron peaked blazars, Mrk 421 and Mrk 501, assuming synchrotron self-Compton emission of gamma-rays. Our model considers an emitting region moving at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jun Kakuwa , Kenji Toma , Katsuaki Asano , Masaaki Kusunose , Fumio Takahara

We investigate the acceleration of charged particles (both electrons and protons) at collisionless shocks predicted to exist in the vicinity of solar flares. The existence of standing termination shocks has been examined by flare models and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Fan Guo , Joe Giacalone

In this paper a spatially resolved, fully self-consistent SSC model is presented. The observable spectral energy distribution (SED) evolves entirely from a low energetic delta distribution of injected electrons by means of the implemented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-19 Stephan Richter , Felix Spanier

We present here a semi-analytical solution of the problem of particle acceleration at non-linear shock waves with a free escape boundary at some location upstream. This solution, besides allowing us to determine the spectrum of particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Caprioli , E. Amato , P. Blasi

Prescriptions for electron injection into the diffusive shock acceleration process are required in many practical considerations of cosmic-ray astrophysics, particularly in modeling of the synchrotron emission of astrophysical sources. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-01 Bojan Arbutina , Vladimir Zeković

During the formation of large-scale structures in the universe, weak internal shocks are induced within the hot ICM, while strong accretion shocks arise in the WHIM within filaments, and the warm-cold gas in voids surrounding galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 Hyesung Kang

Diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) at relativistic shocks is widely thought to be an important acceleration mechanism in various astrophysical jet sources, including radio-loud active galactic nuclei such as blazars. Such acceleration can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 Matthew G. Baring , Markus Böttcher , Errol J. Summerlin

The early acceleration of protons and electrons in the nonrelativistic collisionless shocks with three obliquities are investigated through 1D particle-in-cell simulations. In the simulations, the charged particles possessing a velocity of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Jun Fang , Chun-Yan Lu , Jing-Wen Yan , Huan Yu

We calculate the structure of a relativistic shock wave in which the internal energy of the shocked fluid is radiated away on a time scale much shorter than the characteristic shock propagation time. The shock is assumed to move through a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jonathan Granot , Arieh Konigl

There are still some important unanswered questions about the detailed particle acceleration and escape occurring during the quiescent epoches. As a result, the particle distribution that is adopted in the blazar quiescent spectral model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang , C. Y. Yang , J. M. Bai

We study diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) of electrons in non-relativistic quasi-perpendicular shocks using self-consistent one-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. By exploring the parameter space of sonic and Alfv\'{e}nic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Rui Xu , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Damiano Caprioli

The acceleration of interstellar pick-up ions as well as solar wind species has been observed at a multitude of interplanetary (IP) shocks by different spacecraft. This paper expands upon previous work modeling the phase space distributions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Matthew G. Baring , Errol J. Summerlin

We develop a self-consistent nonlinear extension of diffusive shock acceleration that incorporates cosmic ray (CR) backreaction on the shock precursor together with a physically motivated upstream-escape mechanism that produces an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Han-Xiang Hu , Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Tian-Lu Chen , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin

Heliospheric shocks are excellent systems for testing theories of particle acceleration in their environs. These generally fall into two classes: (1) interplanetary shocks that are linear in their ion acceleration characteristics, with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew G. Baring , Errol J. Summerlin

Electron injection process at high Mach number collisionless quasi-perpendicular shock waves is investigated by means of one-dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations. We find that energetic electrons are generated through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 T. Amano , M. Hoshino

lasma instabilities excited in collisionless shocks are responsible for particle acceleration. We have investigated the particle acceleration and shock structure associated with an unmagnetized relativistic electron-positron jet propagating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 K. -I. Nishikawa , E. J. Choi , K. Min , P. Hardee , Y. Mizuno , B. Zhang , J. Niemiec , M. Medvedev , A. Nordlund , J. Fredriksen , M. Pohl , H. Sol , D. H. Hartmann , G. J. Fishman

We describe a 2.5D MHD simulation describing the evolution of cool jets triggered by initial vertical velocity perturbations in the solar chromosphere. We implement random velocity pulses of amplitude 20-50 km/s between 1 Mm and 1.5 Mm,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-26 Abhishek K. Srivastava , Balveer Singh

A simplified model of particle transport at a quasiparallel one-dimensional collisionless shock is suggested. In this model the MHD-turbulence behind the shock is dominated by a circularly polarized, large amplitude Alfv\'en wave originated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. A. Malkov

It is argued and demonstrated by particle-in-cell simulations that the synchrotron maser instability could develop at the front of a relativistic, magnetized shock. The instability generates strong low-frequency electromagnetic waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuri Lyubarsky