Cosmic Ray Acceleration at Relativistic Shock Waves

1996/10/23 by M. Ostrowski, Ostrowski, M.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9610189

TeX, 11 pages + 6 postscript figures; a review to be published in Proc. ICRR Symposium on Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays, ed. M. Nagano, Tanashi

arxiv created 1996/10/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Theory of the first-order Fermi acceleration of cosmic ray particles at relativistic shock waves is reviewed. We consider shocks with parallel and oblique, sub- and super-luminal magnetic field configurations and with finite-amplitude magnetic field perturbations. A role of oblique field configurations and field perturbations in forming the cosmic ray energy spectrum and changing the acceleration time scale is discussed.

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