Electromagnetic catastrophe in ultrarelativistic shocks and the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 345, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 590-600

  Stern, Boris E ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Methods: numerical; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTONS; STARS;

ELECTROMAGNETICS; FIRST ORDER; GAMMA RAYS BURSTS; INTERSTELLAR MEDIAS; LORENTZ FACTOR; METHOD: NUMERICAL; NON LINEAR; RADIATIVE STATE; SHOCK FRONTS; SHOCK-WAVES;

SHOCK WAVES;

EID: 0142231410     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06968.x     Document Type: Article

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