No universality for the electron power-law index (p) in gamma-ray bursts and other relativistic sources

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 371, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1441-1447

  Shen, Rongfeng ^a   Kumar, Pawan ^a   Robinson, Edward L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Gamma rays: Bursts; Methods: Statistical; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

DELTA FUNCTIONS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GAMMA RAYS; SHOCK WAVES;

ACCELERATION OF PARTICLES; ELECTRON POWER; ENERGIES (POWER); GAMMA RAYS BURSTS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; POWER LAW INDEX; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON; RELATIVISTICS; SHOCK-WAVES; SPECTRAL INDICES;

STARS;

EID: 33748299618     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10768.x     Document Type: Article

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