Stability of an ultrarelativistic blast wave in an external medium with a steep power-law density profile

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 594, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 924-935

  Wang, Xiaohu ^a   Loeb, Abraham ^a,c   Waxman, Eli ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242508378     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377154     Document Type: Article

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