The cosmic-ray precursor of relativistic collisionless shocks: A missing link in gamma-ray burst afterglows

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 651, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 979-984

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

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Hubble ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Cosmic rays; Gamma rays: bursts; Plasmas; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845778409     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507975     Document Type: Article

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