Transmission and damping of hydromagnetic waves behind a strong shock front: implications for cosmic ray acceleration

DOI10.1093/MNRAS/218.3.551zbMath0638.76133OpenAlexW1968664802MaRDI QIDQ3779939

Roger Blandford, A. Achterberg

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/218.3.551

zbMATH Keywords

transmissionwave turbulenceparticle accelerationFermi mechanismAcceleration of cosmic raysfirehose instabilitieshigh beta plasmaintergalactic shock wavesLong wave length modeslow-frequency Alfvén wavespost-shock turbulencescattering highly relativistic ions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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