Meanings
- pluralplural of subshock
Radiation dominance over plasma inertia suppresses formation of collisionless shocks mediated by collective electromagnetic fields. (2) Strong collisionless subshocks develop in the opaque flow if it is sufficiently magnetized.
2016, Andrei M. Beloborodov, “Sub-photospheric shocks in relativistic explosions”, in arXiv
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