Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-05T10:26:26.566Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Instabilities of Uniformly Rotating Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

P. Vauterin
Affiliation:
University of Ghent, Belgium
H. Dejonghe
Affiliation:
University of Ghent, Belgium

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

We explore a series expansion method to calculate the instabilities and the structure of the perturbations for a variety of uniformly rotating finite stellar disks. This survey focuses on the role of the distribution function in stability analyses. Although the potential does not show differential rotation, it will in many cases be a reasonable approximation for the disk in the central regions of galaxies without massive central mass concentration.

Type
Chapter 4: Is there a Consistent Picture of the Inner kpc of the Milky Way?
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

References

Vauterin, P. & Dejonghe, H., 1994, A & A, in press Google Scholar
Hunter, C., 1963, MNRAS, 126, 299 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kalnajs, A. J., 1972, ApJ, 175, 63 Google Scholar
Toomre, A., 1981, Structure and Evolution of Normal Galaxies, eds. Fall, S. M. & Lynden-Bell, (Cambridge University Press), 111 Google Scholar