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The Hose-Pipe Instability in Stellar Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. M. Kulsrud ,
James W. K. Mark  and
A. Caruso
R. M. Kulsrud
Affiliation:
Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
James W. K. Mark
Affiliation:
Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
A. Caruso
Affiliation:
Laboratori Gas Ionizzati, Frascati, Italy

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Indications are that instabilities play an important role in many of the phenomena of stellar dynamics. Examples of such phenomena are: the formation of spiral arms, and the evolution of stellar clusters at a rate faster than one would expect from normal two-body collisions. The analogy with the situation in plasma physics, where similar phenomena are known to be dominated by instabilities, is very suggestive that one might seek for instabilities in stellar dynamics that correspond to similar ones in plasma physics.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 10: Gravitational N-Body Problem , November 1971 , pp. 52 - 55
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971

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