The evolution of a structured relativistic jet and gamma-ray burst afterglow light curves

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 591, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 1075-1085

  Kumar, Pawan ^a   Granot, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Gamma rays: theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141726594     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375186     Document Type: Article

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