Nonthermal Acceleration from Reconnection Shocks
- 5 December 1994
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 73 (23) , 3097-3100
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.73.3097
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.Comment: 12 pages, plain TeX, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. LetKeywords
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