Particle acceleration by ultrarelativistic shocks: Theory and simulations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 328, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 393-408

  Achterberg, Abraham ^a,b   Gallant, Yves A ^a   Kirk, John G ^c   Guthmann, Axel W ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Center for High Energy Astrophysics   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Cosmic rays; Gamma rays: bursts; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CHARGED PARTICLES; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; GAMMA RAYS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

ACCELERATION OF PARTICLES; ACCELERATION PROCESS; ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; GAMMA RAYS BURSTS; LORENTZ FACTOR; PARTICLE ACCELERATION; POWER-LAW; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SHOCK-WAVES; SPECTRA'S;

SHOCK WAVES;

EID: 0000902505     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04851.x     Document Type: Article

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