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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 905, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abbe06
Keywords
Plasma physics; Plasma astrophysics; Shocks; Supernovae; Supernova remnants; Cosmic rays; Galactic cosmic rays
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Funding
- NASA [NNX17AG30G, 80NSSC18K1218, 80NSSC18K1726]
- NSF [AST-1714658, AST-1909778, PHY-1748958, PHY-2010240]
- International Space Science Institute's (ISSI) International Teams program
- XSEDE TACC [TG-AST180008]
- NASA [NNX17AG30G, 1001325] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Collisionless plasma shocks are efficient sources of nonthermal particle acceleration in space and astrophysical systems. We use hybrid (kinetic ion-fluid electron) simulations to examine the nonlinear feedback of the self-generated energetic particles (cosmic rays, CRs) on the shock hydrodynamics. When CR acceleration is efficient, we find evidence of both an upstream precursor, where the inflowing plasma is compressed and heated, and a downstream postcursor, where the energy flux in CRs and amplified magnetic fields play a dynamical role. For the first time, we assess how nonlinear magnetic fluctuations in the postcursor preferentially travel away from the shock at roughly the local Alfven speed with respect to the downstream plasma. The drift of both magnetic and CR energy with respect to the thermal plasma substantially increases the shock compression ratio with respect to the standard prediction, in particular exceeding 4 for strong shocks. Such modifications also have implications for the spectrum of the particles accelerated via diffusive shock acceleration, a significant result detailed in a companion paper.
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