Shock waves are sites of intense plasma heating and charged particle acceleration. In
collisionless solar wind plasmas, such acceleration is attributed to shock drift or Fermi …

Transient electron dynamics near the interface of counterstreaming plasmas at the onset of a
relativistic collisionless shock (RCS) is investigated using particle-in-cell simulations. We …

The generation of cosmic ray particles with ultra‐relativistic energies is a crucial issue in
astrophysical and space physics. Shocks have been acknowledged as efficient accelerators …

Magnetic reconnection occurs ubiquitously in the universe and is often invoked to explain
fast energy release and particle acceleration in high-energy astrophysics. The study of …

A multispecies energetic particle intensity enhancement event at 1 au is analyzed. We
identify this event as a corotating interaction region (CIR) structure that includes a stream …

Strong nonrelativistic shocks are known to accelerate particles up to relativistic energies.
However, for diffusive shock acceleration, electrons must have a highly suprathermal …

Thermal electrons have gyroradii many orders of magnitude smaller than the finite width of a
shock, thus need to be pre-accelerated before they can cross it and be accelerated by …

Cosmology models predict that external accretion shocks form in the outer region of galaxy
clusters owing to supersonic gas infall from filaments and voids in the cosmic web. They are …

Shock waves, the interface of supersonic and subsonic plasma flows, are the primary region
for charged particle acceleration in multiple space plasma systems, including Earth's bow …

The importance of the electric potential along the field direction in the acceleration of
electrons in the quasi-perpendicular bow shock has been proposed. Nevertheless, the …