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Cosmic ray acceleration in magnetic circumstellar bubbles

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-02-14 v2

Abstract

We consider the diffusive shock acceleration in interstellar bubbles created by powerful stellar winds of supernova progenitors. Under the moderate stellar wind magnetization the bubbles are filled by the strongly magnetized low density gas. It is shown that the maximum energy of particles accelerated in this environment can exceed the "knee" energy in the observable cosmic ray spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.1712.02174,
  title  = {Cosmic ray acceleration in magnetic circumstellar bubbles},
  author = {V. N. Zirakashvili and V. S. Ptuskin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.02174},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

9 pages, 6 figures, corrected version, accepted to Astroparticle Physics

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