Weibel filament decay and thermalization in collisionless shocks and gamma-ray burst afterglows

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 641, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 978-983

  Milosavljević, Miloš ^a   Nakar, Ehud ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Instabilities; Magnetic fields; MHD; Plasmas; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745319502     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500654     Document Type: Article

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