RMxAA

Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica

ISSN: 3061-8649
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Keywords

Cosmic Rays
Electron Acceleration
Electron Energy
Energy Distribution
Fokker-Planck Equation
Electromagnetic Fields
Energetic Particles
Energy Dissipation
Energy Spectra
Nuclear and High-Energy Physics

How to Cite

Solutions of the Fokker-Planck Equation for the Energy Distribution of Suprathermal Electrons. (1987). Revista Mexicana De Astronomía Y Astrofísica, 14(1), 705. https://astronomia.unam.mx/journals/rmxaa/article/view/1987rmxaa..14..705p

Abstract

The Fokker-Planck equation (continuity equation in the energy space) is solved under several different assumptions, concerning the phenomena associated with acceleration of electrons. The obtained partial solutions allow for the determination of the particle energy spectra. Three different acceleration processes are worked out within the frame of a thin-geometry: the characteristic acceleration time is shorter than the collisional interaction time, so that energy losses during acceleration are negligible. The conditions for which the age-energy-approximation approaches the stationary and nonstationary solutions of the continuity equations are delineated.
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