Can internal shocks produce the variability in gamma-ray bursts?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 490, Issue 1 PART I, 1997, Pages 92-98

  Kobayashi, Shiho ^a   Piran, Tsvi ^a   Sari, Re'em ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Relativity; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242364825     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/512791     Document Type: Article

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