The upstream magnetic field of collisionless GRB shocks: Constraint by Fermi-LAT observations

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Li, Zhuo ^a   Zhao, Xiao Hong ^b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

cosmic ray theory; gamma ray bursts theory; magnetic fields; particle acceleration

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957961806     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/05/008     Document Type: Article

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