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Bursting Particle Acceleration in Radio Jets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

R. N. Henriksen
R. N. Henriksen*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Queen's University at Kingston Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Canada

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This work follows on the papers by Henriksen, Bridle and Chan (1982) (HB) and by Eilek and Henriksen (1983). These papers introduced a comprehensive model of (hydrodynamic) turbulence driven Alfven wave, resonant, particle acceleration. Very similar ideas were introduced independently by Fedorenko (1980), but the details were sketchy and the universality of the resulting spectral index was not realized. Eichler (1979) has come closest to these ideas previously (again independently) in a very original paper directed at ion acceleration in solar flares. He includes a back reaction on the turbulent eddies however which requires an adhoc treatment and is probably unnecessary (we replace this by the Lighthill noise analysis: HBC) and he omits synchrotron and adiabatic losses. Moreover, the quasi-linear theory is not used in calculating the distribution function. Nevertheless, it is reassuring that the same intuitive physics, even to the self-similar universality, should arise independently.

Type
Session VI
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 107: Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities , 1985 , pp. 413 - 423
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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