Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 429, Issue 3, Pages 2755-2762Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sts553
Keywords
acceleration of particles; shock waves
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- Russian government [11.G34.31.0001]
- RAS [P21, OFN 16]
- RFBR [11-02-12082-ofi-m-2011]
- Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation [8409]
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Powerful stellar winds and supernova explosions with intense energy release in the form of strong shock waves can convert a sizeable part of the kinetic energy release into energetic particles. The star-forming regions are argued as a favourable site of energetic particle acceleration and could be efficient sources of non-thermal emission. We present here a non-linear time-dependent model of particle acceleration in the vicinity of two closely approaching fast magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) shocks. Such MHD flows are expected to occur in rich young stellar cluster where a supernova is exploding in the vicinity of a strong stellar wind of a nearby massive star. We find that the spectrum of the high-energy particles accelerated at the stage of two closely approaching shocks can be harder than that formed at a forward shock of an isolated supernova remnant. The presented method can be applied to model particle acceleration in a variety of systems with colliding MHD flows.
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