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Shocks in the Heliosphere

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The Sun, the Solar Wind, and the Heliosphere

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Most of astrophysical shocks are collisionless, where the collective electromagnetic interaction plays the essential role in the dissipation process and results in a large deviation of particle phase-space distribution from the thermal equilibrium. An ideal laboratory for collisionless shocks is the heliosphere, in which shocks are formed ahead of coronal mass ejections (CME), ahead of planetary/cometary magnetospheres/ionospheres, around corotating interaction regions (CIR), and ahead of the heliopause. This review gives three topics about the nonthermal particle acceleration at these heliospheric shocks, nonlinear reaction of shock acceleration, the maximum energy of shock-accelerated particles, and the problem of shock acceleration of electrons.

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    At the heliospheric shocks, the role of “cosmic rays” in CRMS is played by various components of energetic particles (interstellar pickup protons at TS, diffuse ions at BS, and SEPs at CME shocks).

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The author thanks Drs. R. Kataoka, K. Asano, K. Shibata, N. Nitta, R. Nakamura, W. Baumjohann, B. Klecker, and M. Scholer for valuable comments and discussions. This work is supported in part by the Grant-in-aid 21540259 for Scientific Research from the MEXT, Japan. Neutron monitors of the Bartol Research Institute are supported by NSF grant ATM-0527878.

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    Toshio Terasawa

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Terasawa, T. (2011). Shocks in the Heliosphere. In: Miralles, M., Sánchez Almeida, J. (eds) The Sun, the Solar Wind, and the Heliosphere. IAGA Special Sopron Book Series, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9787-3_12

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