Time-dependent stochastic particle acceleration in astrophysical plasmas: Exact solutions including momentum-dependent escape

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 647, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 539-551

  Becker, Peter A ^a   Le, Truong ^b   Dermer, Charles D ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Black hole physics; Cosmic rays; Galaxies: jets; Methods: analytical; Plasmas

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748473464     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505319     Document Type: Article

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