Particle acceleration in relativistic current sheets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Kirk, J G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; GALAXIES; GAMMA RAYS; JETS; KINETIC ENERGY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PHOTONS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; TELESCOPES;

COMPTON SCATTERING; HOFMANN-TELLER FRAMES; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 2942648677     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.181101     Document Type: Article

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