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Electron acceleration with improved Stochastic Differential Equation method: cutoff shape of electron distribution in test-particle limit
We develop a method of stochastic differential equation to simulate electron
acceleration at astrophysical shocks. Our method is based on It\^{o}'s
stochastic differential equations coupled with a particle splitting, employing
a skew Brownian motion where an asymmetric shock crossing probability is
considered. Using this code, we perform simulations of electron acceleration at
stationary plane parallel shock with various parameter sets, and studied how
the cutoff shape, which is characterized by cutoff shape parameter , changes
with the momentum dependence of the diffusion coefficient . In the
age-limited cases, we reproduce previous results of other authors,
. In the cooling-limited cases, the analytical expectation
is roughly reproduced although we recognize deviations to
some extent. In the case of escape-limited acceleration, numerical result fits
analytical stationary solution well, but deviates from the previous asymptotic
analytical formula .Comment: corrected typos, 10 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, JHEAp in pres
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