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6.13. Central NGC 2146 – a bending instability in the disk of newly formed stars?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

E. Griv*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, Beersheva 84105, Israel (email: [email protected])

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As the observations of highly flattened galaxies including the Milky Way and many-body (N-body) simulations show, the central parts of these systems, say, at distances r < 0.5–0.7 kpc from the center, rotate slowly and their local circular velocities of regular rotation become less than (or comparable to) the residual (random) velocities. In such a thin, practically nonrotating circumnuclear disk, a typical star moves along the bending, perpendicular to the equatorial plane layer under the action of two forces which act in opposite directions: the destabilizing centrifugal force Fc and the restoring gravitational attraction Fg. Obviously, fierce instabilities of the buckling kind developing perpendicular to the plane may not be avoided if Fc > Fg. The latter condition is none other than the condition of “firehose” electromagnetic instability in collisionless plasmas which is driven by the particle “pressure” anisotropy.

Type
Part II. Nuclear Interstellar Medium
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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