Steady state electrostatic layers from Weibel instability in relativistic collisionless shocks

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 637, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 765-773

  Milosavljević, Miloš ^a   Nakar, Ehud ^a   Spitkovsky, Anatoly ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instabilities; Magnetic fields; Plasmas; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 32944458564     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498445     Document Type: Article

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