Energy spectrum of particles accelerated in relativistic collisionless shocks

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Keshet, Uri ^a   Waxman, Eli ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC INDEX; COLLISIONLESS SHOCKS; ENERGY SPECTRUM; GAMMA-RAYS BURSTS (GRB);

ACCELERATION; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 18044374642     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.111102     Document Type: Article

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