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The gravitational instability of a rotating magnetoplasma in the guiding centre approximation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

A. D. Lunn
A. D. Lunn
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, Oxford
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Abstract

Jeans's criterion for instability is found to be changed only for the case of perturbations perpendicular to the magnetic field and rotation parallel to it, when rotation and finite Larmor radius effects tend to stabilize the plasma.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , June 1971 , pp. 365 - 373
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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