Stability of Relativistic Blast Waves

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2000-02-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0002472v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 2 figures, Accepted for publication in Prog.Theor. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1143/PTP.103.549

A spherical blast wave with relativistic velocity can be described by a similarity solution, that is used for theoretical models of gamma-ray bursts. We consider the linear stability of such a relativistic blast wave propagating into a medium with density gradient. The perturbation can also be expressed by a self-similar form. We show that the shock front is unstable in general, and we evaluate the growth rate.

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