The surfatron acceleration of cosmic rays in the galactic plasma |
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Authors: | G N Kichigin |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia |
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Abstract: | The optimum conditions for a prolonged holding of charged particles resonantly trapped from the galactic plasma by nonlinear waves and for the acceleration of these particles to high energies by the surfatron mechanism are established. The density of particles trapped by the plasma waves of large amplitude and by the quasitransverse magnetosonic shock waves is estimated. Various reasons leading to possible breakage of the process of surfatron acceleration of cosmic rays in the Galaxy are considered. Within the framework of the surfatron acceleration mechanism, galactic cosmic rays originate predominantly from the interstellar plasma and their energy spectrum is formed in two stages. In the first stage, some of the galactic plasma particles are accelerated from thermal energies to 1015 eV/nucleon; in the second stage, the cosmic rays may continue gaining energy up to 1019 eV/nucleon and above. |
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