Impact of relativistic fireballs on external matter: Numerical models of cosmological gamma-ray bursts

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 482, Issue 2 PART I, 1997, Pages 942-950

  Panaitescu, A ^a   Wen, L ^a,b   Laguna, P ^a   Meszaros P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Hydrodynamics; Methods: numerical; Relativity; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744434491     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/304185     Document Type: Article

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