We present a survey of 1D kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of quasi-parallel nonrelativistic
shocks to identify the environments favorable for electron acceleration. We explore an …

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

Adiabatic heating of solar wind electrons at the Earth's bow shock and its foreshock region
produces transversely anisotropic hot electrons that, in turn, generate intense high …

Diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) of particles at collisionless shocks is the major accepted
paradigm about the origin of cosmic rays (CRs). As a theory, it was developed during the …

In this paper, we constrain the density of the interstellar medium (ISM) around the hadronic
PeVatron candidate, supernova remnant (SNR) G106. 3+ 2.7, based on X-ray and γ-ray …

We consider scenario of a supernova interaction with a circumstellar shell proposed earlier
to account for the second maximum in the light curve of the superluminous supernova …

Magnetized collisionless shocks are common in astrophysical systems, and scaled versions
can be created in laboratory experiments by utilizing laser-driven piston plasmas to create …

Relativistic laser–plasma interaction can produce nonthermal electron spectra in power-law
scaling. The power-law index for near-critical density plasmas changes between 1.8 and 2.0 …

Energetic positrons have been observed in the interstellar medium, and high-energy
positrons with relativistic energies up to approximately 1 TeV have been detected in Galactic …

Understanding the acceleration of particles at shock waves is a crucial challenge for
astrophysics and space physics. Although diffusive shock acceleration (DSA;[1]) is …