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Context. Solar energetic particles observed in association with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are produced by the CME-driven shock waves. The acceleration of particles is considered to be due to diffusive shock acceleration (DSA). Aims. We…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Alexandr Afanasiev , Markus Battarbee , Rami Vainio

We report simulations of diffusive particle acceleration in oblique magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) shocks. These calculations are based on extension to oblique shocks of a numerical model for ``thermal leakage'' injection of particles at low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones

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

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

We study diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) of protons and electrons at nonrelativistic, high Mach number, quasiparallel, collisionless shocks by means of self-consistent 1D particle-in-cell simulations. For the first time, both species are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-02 Jaehong Park , Damiano Caprioli , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We have developed a Monte Carlo technique for self-consistently calculating the hydrodynamic structure of oblique, steady-state shocks, together with the first-order Fermi acceleration process and associated non-thermal particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Donald C. Ellison , Matthew G. Baring , Frank C. Jones

We independently develop a simulation code following the previous dynamical Monte Carlo simulation of the diffusive shock acceleration under the isotropic scattering law during the scattering process, and the same results are obtained.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Xin Wang , Yihua Yan

We report on a new Monte Carlo method for simulating diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) of solar energetic particles at upstream and downstream regions of quasi-parallel collisionless shock waves under the influence of self-generated…

Space Physics · Physics 2014-08-14 Arto Sandroos , Gang Li , Lulu Zhao

We investigate ways of accurately simulating the propagation of energetic charged particles over small times where the standard Monte Carlo approximation to diffusive transport breaks down. We find that a small-angle scattering procedure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Protheroe , A. Meli , A. -C Donea

The recent discoveries in the theory of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) that stem from first-principle kinetic plasma simulations are discussed. When ion acceleration is efficient, the back-reaction of non-thermal particles and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Damiano Caprioli , Colby Haggerty , Pasquale Blasi

Diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) at relativistic shocks is likely to be an important acceleration mechanism in various astrophysical jet sources, including radio-loud AGN. An important recent development for blazar science is the ability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Matthew G. Baring , Markus Boettcher , Errol J. Summerlin

We analytically study diffusive particle acceleration in relativistic, collisionless shocks. We find a simple relation between the spectral index s and the anisotropy of the momentum distribution along the shock front. Based on this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Uri Keshet , Eli Waxman

The analytical theory of diffusive cosmic ray acceleration at parallel stationary shock waves with magnetostatic turbulence is generalized to arbitrary shock speeds $V_s=\beta_1c$, including in particular relativistic speeds. This is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Reinhard Schlickeiser

The first-order cosmic ray acceleration at ultrarelativistic shocks is investigated using the Monte Carlo method. We apply a method of discrete particle momentum scattering as a model of particle pitch angle diffusion to reproduce highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bednarz

Relativistic astrophysical collisionless shocks represent outstanding dissipation agents of the huge power of relativistic outflows produced by accreting black holes, core collapsed supernovae and other objects into multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-30 Guy Pelletier , Andrei Bykov , Don Ellison , Martin Lemoine

Motivated by cosmic ray (CR) re-acceleration at a potential Galactic Wind Termination Shock (GWTS), we present a numerical model for time-dependent Diffusive Shock Acceleration (DSA). We use the stochastic differential equation solver…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-07 Sophie Aerdker , Lukas Merten , Julia Becker Tjus , Dominik Walter , Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner

We present a new code aimed at the simulation of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA), and discuss various test cases which demonstrate its ability to study DSA in its full time-dependent and non-linear developments. We present the numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gilles Ferrand , Turlough Downes , Alexandre Marcowith

The highly amplified magnetic fields suggested by observations of some supernova remnant (SNR) shells are most likely an intrinsic part of efficient particle acceleration by shocks. This strong turbulence, which may result from cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrey E. Vladimirov , Andrei M. Bykov , Donald C. Ellison

Diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) of particles at collisionless shocks is the major accepted paradigm about the origin of cosmic rays (CRs). As a theory it was developed during the late 1970s in the so-called test-particle case. If one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Bojan Arbutina

We study the evolution of the energy spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons accelerated at spherically expanding shocks with low Mach numbers and the ensuing spectral signatures imprinted in radio synchrotron emission. Time-dependent simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Hyesung Kang