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Shock Acceleration in Hot Spots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

M. H. Pope ,
Lewis Ball  and
D. B. Melrose
M. H. Pope
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australiaball@physics.usyd.edu.au
Lewis Ball
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australiaball@physics.usyd.edu.au
D. B. Melrose
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australiaball@physics.usyd.edu.au
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Abstract

A simple model is presented for electron acceleration in extragalactic radio sources with two hot spots. The effect of diffusive shock acceleration by multiple shocks is calculated numerically, with adiabatic and synchrotron losses included. It is found for the sources 3C 20 and 3C 268·4 that a consistent set of model parameters exists which reproduce the observations. The model fails to reproduce the observations for the source 3C 196.

Keywords

active galactic nucleiparticle accelerationshock waves
Type
High-energy Astrophysics
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , May 1996 , pp. 132 - 139
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1996

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