Particle acceleration in relativistic jets due to Weibel instability

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 595, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 555-563

  Nishikawa, K I ^a,e   Hardee, P ^b   Richardson, G ^a,e   Preece, R ^a,c   Sol, H ^d   Flshman, G J ^e  

^a NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^e NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Instabilities; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141484366     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377260     Document Type: Article

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