Fundamentals of collisionless shocks for astrophysical application, 2. Relativistic shocks

Astronomy and Astrophysics Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bykov, A M ^a   Treumann, R A ^b,c,d  

^a IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bell modes; Collisionless shocks; Downstream turbulence; External shocks; Gamma ray bursts; Generation of magnetic fields; Internal shocks; Particle acceleration; Pulsar wind nebulae termination shocks; Relativistic shocks; Shock radiation; Weibel modes

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONLESS SHOCKS; EXTERNAL SHOCKS; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; INTERNAL SHOCKS; PARTICLE ACCELERATION; RELATIVISTIC SHOCKS; TERMINATION SHOCKS; WEIBEL MODES;

BELLS; COSMIC RAYS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; GAMMA RAYS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOPLASMA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

SHOCK WAVES;

EID: 84884710304     PISSN: 09354956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00159-011-0042-8     Document Type: Article

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