Probing the magnetic field structure in gamma-ray bursts through dispersive plasma effects on the afterglow polarization

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 615, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 366-377

  Sagiv, Amir ^a   Waxman, Eli ^a   Loeb, Abraham ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Magnetic fields; Plasmas; Polarization; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844276334     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423977     Document Type: Article

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