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Tumbling instability in oblate rotating stellar systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

E. Szuszkiewicz
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London
J.C.B. Papaloizou
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London
A. J. Allen
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London
P.L. Palmer
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London

Abstract

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We present evolutionary calculations which show the tumbling instability found in spherical stellar systems by Allen et al. (1992) also occurs in some initially oblate rotating systems.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1993 

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