Magnetic-field amplification by turbulence in a relativistic shock propagating through an inhomogeneous medium

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 726, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Mizuno, Yosuke ^a,b   Pohl, Martin ^c,d   Niemiec, Jacek ^e   Zhang, Bing ^f   Nishikawa, Ken Ichi ^a,b   Hardee, Philip E ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d DESY   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma ray burst: general; Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); Methods: numerical; Relativistic processes; Shock waves; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891245181     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/726/2/62     Document Type: Article

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