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A Theoretical Review of Diffusive Shock Acceleration1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Frank C. Jones
Frank C. Jones*
Affiliation:
Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics, Code 665, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771

Abstract

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We discuss the fundamental ideas of particle acceleration in plasma shocks with emphasis on those features that are required to produce the “universal” power-law spectrum. We compare shock acceleration with the more familiar second-order or stochastic acceleration and see that they are not too different in many respects. We discuss the features of shock acceleration that make it appealing and some of its problems as well.

Subject headings: acceleration of particles — MHD — plasmas — shock waves

Type
Interplanetary Medium
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 142: Particle Acceleration Phenomena in Astrophysical Plasmas , 1994 , pp. 561 - 565
Copyright
Copyright © The American Astronomical Society 1994

Footnotes

1

Invited talk presented at the IAU Colloquium No. 142, “Particle Acceleration Phenomena in Astrophysical Plasmas.”

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