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Effects of collisions and gyroviscosity on gravitational instability in a two-component plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

F. Herrnegger
Affiliation:
Institut f ür Theorotiseho Physik, Univorsit ät Inrisbruck, Austria

Abstract

The dispersion relation for gravitational instability has been given within the framework of a two-fluid theory. It has been shown that the Jeans criterion is changed by finite Larmor radius and by collisions for waves propagating perpendicular to the magnetic field. The critical wavenumber for instability decreases with increasing Alfvén velocity and with increasing gyroviscosity. Instability does not set in with overstabiity.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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