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ASTRONOMY LETTERS-A JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 27, Issue 10, Pages 625-633Publisher
PLEIADES PUBLISHING INC
DOI: 10.1134/1.1404456
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cosmic rays; nonthermal radiation; supernovae and supernova remnants
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The possibility of cosmic-ray (CR) acceleration to energies above 10(9) GeV per nucleus in extended Galactic OB associations is analyzed. A two-stage acceleration mechanism is justified: at the first stage, the acceleration by separate shock fronts from spatially and temporally correlated supernovae explosions takes place, and, at the second stage, the Fermi acceleration by supersonic turbulence in an extended, strongly perturbed region near the OB association takes place. We calculate the CR energy spectrum, the change in CR chemical composition with energy, and the energy dependence of the mean logarithm of atomic mass, (InA), for the accelerated particles, The calculated values are compared with those observed near the break in the energy spectrum. We estimate the turbulence parameters, which allow the observed features or the energy spectrum and the CR enrichment with heavy elements to be explained. (C) 2001 MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica.
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