Non-thermal Acceleration from Reconnection Shocks
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- 12 October 1994
Abstract
Reconnection shocks in a magnetically dominated plasma must be compressive. Non-thermal ion acceleration can occur across built-in slow shocks, and across outflow fast shocks when the outflow is supermagnetosonic and the field is line-tied. Electron acceleration may be initiated by injection from the dissipation region. Reconnection and shock acceleration thus cooperate and non-thermal acceleration should be a characteristic feature.Keywords
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- Version 1, 1994-10-12, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review Letters, 73 (23), 3097.
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