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arxiv: astro-ph/0609074 · v1 · submitted 2006-09-04 · 🌌 astro-ph

On the stability of accelerating relativistic shock waves

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We consider the corrugation instability of the self-similar flow with an accelerating shock in the highly relativistic regime. We derive the correct dispersion relation for the proper modes in the self-similar regime, and conclude that this solution is unstable.

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