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Shock Drift Acceleration of Electrons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Lewis Ball  and
D. B. Melrose
Lewis Ball*
Affiliation:
RCfTA, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
D. B. Melrose
Affiliation:
RCfTA, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
*
ball@physics.usyd.edu.au
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Abstract

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We review the theory of shock drift acceleration, developing the theory in detail for gyrophaseaveraged particles. It is shown howboth the upstream and downstream velocity spaces separate into different regions according to the interaction of the particles with the shock (reflection, transmission, head-on, overtaking). The effects of the cross-shock electric field and of the magnetic overshoot are discussed. The effectiveness of acceleration is estimated for Maxwellian and power law distributions. The condition for a beam instability to be generated by reflected particles is determined and found to be independent of the distribution function for isotropic inflowing electrons.

Keywords

acceleration of particlesshocks
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , 2001 , pp. 361 - 373
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2001

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