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Simulations of Ion Acceleration at Non-relativistic Shocks. II. Magnetic Field Amplification

  • Authors: D. Caprioli and A. Spitkovsky

Caprioli & Spitkovsky 2014 The Astrophysical Journal 794 46.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Top panel: magnetic field upstream of the shock at , for different Mach numbers as in the legend. Btot(x) is averaged over 200 cp in the transverse size and over in time, in order to smooth time and space fluctuations. Bottom panel: total amplification factor, averaged over a distance Δx = 10 MAcp ahead of the shock, as a function of the Alfvénic Mach number (red symbols). The dashed line corresponds to langBtot/B0rang2 = 0.45 MA, and represents the prediction of resonant streaming instability (see Equation (2), with ζcr = 0.15).

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