Nonresonant generation of MHD disturbances during supernova explosions in an inhomogeneous interstellar medium |
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Authors: | I N Toptygin |
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Institution: | (1) St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, ul. Politekhnicheskaya 29, St. Petersburg, 195251, Russia |
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Abstract: | We analyze the nonresonant generation of large-scale magnetic inhomogeneities near a shock front by accelerated particles. The MHD disturbances are generated by the electric current excited by relativistic particles in the preshock medium in the presence of weak large-scale density inhomogeneities. The MHD modes considered can be amplified by other resonant and nonresonant mechanisms related to the presence of relativistic particles. We estimate the magnetic fields and the energies to which charged particles can be accelerated in different phases of the interstellar medium by taking into account the random magnetic fields generated by the mechanism considered. |
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Keywords: | supernova remnants particle acceleration inhomogeneous medium magnetic field generation |
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