Neutron star quakes and the origin of the "knee" in the cosmic ray spectrum

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 306, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 326-328

  Cheng, K S ^a   Chi, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Cosmic rays; Gamma rays: bursts; Pulsars

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012614129     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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