Probing the efficiency of electron-proton coupling in relativistic collisionless shocks through the radio polarimetry of gamma-ray burst afterglows

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 673, Issue 2 PART 2, 2008, Pages

  Toma, Kenji ^a   Ioka, Kunihito ^a,b   Nakamura, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Gamma rays: bursts; Polarization; Radio continuum: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 52249105683     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/528740     Document Type: Article

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