On dynamics of relativistic shock waves with losses in gamma-ray burst sources
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Generalization of the self-similar solution for ultrarelativistic shock waves (Blandford & McKee, 1976) is obtained in presence of losses localized on the shock front or distributed in the downstream medium. It is shown that there are two qualitatively different regimes of shock deceleration, corresponding to small and large losses. We present the temperature, pressure and density distributions in the downstream fluid as well as Lorentz factor as a function of distance from the shock front.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0501192,
title = {On dynamics of relativistic shock waves with losses in gamma-ray burst sources},
author = {E. V. Derishev and Vl. V. Kocharovsky and K. A. Martiyanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0501192},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics - 2004