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The goal of this paper is to study the electrostatic field due to an arbitrary charge distribution on a dielectric layer in a dielectric-loaded rectangular waveguide. In order to obtain this electrostatic field, the potential due to a point…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 A. Berenguer , A. Coves , F. Mesa , E. Bronchalo , B. Gimeno , V. Boria

Supernova remnants have long been considered as a promising candidate for sources of Galactic cosmic rays. However, modelling cosmic-ray transport around these sources is complicated by the fact that the overdensity of cosmic rays close to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Hanno Jacobs , Philipp Mertsch , Vo Hong Minh Phan

Multi-wavelength observations of mature supernova remnants (SNRs), especially with recent advances in gamma-ray astronomy, make it possible to constrain energy distribution of energetic particles within these remnants. In consideration of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Houdun Zeng , Yuliang Xin , Siming Liu , J. R. Jokipii , Li Zhang , Shuinai Zhang

Shock drift acceleration plays an important role in generating high-energy electrons at quasi-perpendicular shocks, but its efficiency in low beta plasmas is questionable. In this article, we perform a two-dimensional particle-in-cell…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Ao Guo , Quanming Lu , San Lu , Zhongwei Yang , Xinliang Gao

A number of nearby Northern Hemisphere shell-type Supernova Remnants (SNRs) has been observed in TeV gamma rays, but none of them could be detected so far. This failure calls for a critical reevaluation of the theoretical arguments for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Volk

We consider diffusive shock acceleration in supernova remnants throughout their evolution including a radiative stage. It is found that a more efficient acceleration and fast exit of particles at the radiative stage results in the hardening…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 V. N. Zirakashvili , V. S. Ptuskin

We have developed an inversion method for determination of the characteristics of the acceleration mechanism directly and non-parametrically from observations, in contrast to the usual forward fitting of parametric model variables to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Vahé Petrosian , Qingrong Chen

We use multi-spacecraft Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observations to investigate electric fields and ion reflection at a non-stationary collisionless perpendicular plasma shock. We identify sub-proton scale (5-10 electron inertial…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Yuri V. Khotyaintsev , Daniel B. Graham , Andreas Johlander

Supernova Remnants (SNRs) shocks are believed to accelerate charged particles and to generate strong turbulence in the post-shock flow. From high-energy observations in the past decade, a magnetic field at SNR shocks largely exceeding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Fraschetti

A numerical study on ion acceleration in electrostatic shock waves is presented, with the aim of determining the best plasma configuration to achieve quasi-monoenergetic ion beams in laser-driven systems. It was recently shown that tailored…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 E. Boella , F. Fiúza , A. Stockem Novo , R. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

We explore nonlinear effects of wave-particle interactions on the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) process in Type Ia-like, SNR blast waves, by implementing phenomenological models for magnetic field amplification, Alfv'enic drift, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones , Paul P. Edmon

Radio emissions from young supernovae (~ 1 year after the explosion) show a peculiar feature in the relativistic electron population at a shock wave, where their energy distribution is steeper than typically found in supernova remnants…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 keiichi Maeda

Detailed comparisons are reported between laboratory observations of electron-scale dissipation layers near a reconnecting X-line and direct two-dimensional full-particle simulations. Many experimental features of the electron layers, such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. Ji , Y. Ren , M. Yamada , S. Dorfman , W. Daughton , S. P. Gerhardt

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 escape of charged particles accelerated by diffusive shock acceleration from supernova remnants is shown to be a more complex process than normally appreciated. Using a box model it is shown that the high-energy end of the spectrum can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Luke O'C. Drury

Within a test-particle description of the acceleration process in parallel nonrelativistic shocks, we present an analytic treatment of the electron injection. We estimate the velocity distribution of the injected electrons as the product of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Petruk , R. Bandiera

Context. Galactic cosmic rays are widely assumed to arise from diffusive shock acceleration, specifically at shocks in supernova remnants (SNRs). These shocks expand in a complex environment, particularly in the core-collapse scenario as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Samata Das , Robert Brose , Dominique M. -A. Meyer , Martin Pohl , Iurii Sushch , Pavlo Plotko

A rigorous theoretical investigation has been made on the nonlinear propagation of dust-ion-acoustic shock waves in a multi-component magnetized pair-ion plasma having inertial warm positive and negative ions, inertialess non-thermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 S. Jahan , S. Banik , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , A. A. Mamun

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

A case of two interpenetrating, cold and quasi-neutral ion-electron plasmas is investigated with the multi-fluid approach. We consider that one plasma flows quasi-parallel to the lines of a background magnetic field embedded in another…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-19 Vladimir Zekovic