Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Shock wave

  1. Shock precursor type changes ion and electron acceleration
    Simulations reveal two distinct regimes in transrelativistic shocks where competing plasma instabilities produce dramatically different particle acceleration efficiencies for ions and electrons.
  2. Relativistic effects change synchrotron shock modeling accuracy
    Numerical model reveals that simplified approximations for synchrotron emission from relativistic shocks can be inaccurate by over an order of magnitude, biasing inferred properties of transients.