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Interstellar Shock Heating

Interstellar Shock Heating is a physical process in astrophysics whereby the kinetic energy of a supernova blast wave is transferred to the surrounding interstellar medium through shock fronts, resulting in a rapid increase in thermal energy and temperature of the ambient gas.

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Classification parameters for the emission-line spectra of extragalactic objects

J. A. Baldwin, M. M. Phillips, R. Terlevich · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 1981 · 5.1K citations · Full text

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Theory of Interstellar Shocks

B. T. Draine, Christopher F. McKee · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 1993 · 507 citations

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Solar-stellar outer atmospheres and energetic particles, and galactic cosmic rays

J. P. Meyer · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 1985 · 471 citations

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Hydrogen molecules and the radiative cooling of pregalactic shocks

Paul R. Shapiro, Hyesung Kang · The Astrophysical Journal · 1987 · 328 citations

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H2O masers in star-forming regions

Moshe Elitzur, D. J. Hollenbach, Christopher F. McKee · The Astrophysical Journal · 1989 · 279 citations

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    Christopher F. McKee

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    4 publications · 934 citations

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    G. Pineau des Forêts

    Laboratoire d’Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères, France

    4 publications · 205 citations

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  3. AG
    A. Gusdorf

    Laboratoire d’Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères, France

    4 publications · 353 citations

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  4. PG
    P. Guillard

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    4 publications · 219 citations

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  5. RA
    Roger A. Chevalier

    University of Virginia, United States

    4 publications · 388 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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  2. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    12 h-index

    29 publications

    1.5K citations

  3. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    11 h-index

    26 publications

    1.9K citations

  4. Université Paris Cité

    Paris, France

    10 h-index

    27 publications

    908 citations

  5. Laboratoire d’Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères

    Paris, France

    9 h-index

    16 publications

    1.2K citations

  6. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    859 citations

  7. Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale

    Bures-sur-Yvette, France

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    1.2K citations

  8. École Normale Supérieure - PSL

    Paris, France

    7 h-index

    17 publications

    487 citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    12 publications · 669 citations

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    AJ · 6 publications · 216 citations

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