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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D
卷 17, 期 10, 页码 1827-1837出版社
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271808013467
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Cosmic rays; Fermi acceleration; relativistic shock waves; relativistic jets; gamma-ray bursts
We review the theoretical progress in the field of cosmic-ray first-order Fermi acceleration at relativistic shock fronts, showing that recent results change our knowledge about these processes substantially. In particular, relativistic shocks are unlikely to form particle distributions extending to very high energies. Instead, recent simulations give particle distributions where a shock-compressed injected component is followed by a more or less extended high energy tail. An increase of the Lorentz factor of the shock usually leads to steepening and a decrease of the energetic tail, so that fitted spectral indices to the high energy part can substantially deviate from the universal power law index sigma approximate to 2.2. We report on observational findings from the hot spots in Cygnus A, showing that the derived electron spectra (with a very. at, sigma approximate to 1.5, low energy part up to similar to 1 GeV, followed by a much steeper, sigma > 3, part at higher energies) indeed deviate from the standard expectation for relativistic shocks. We conclude with a short discussion of some qualitative features of shear and second-order Fermi acceleration in turbulent relativistic plasmas.
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