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On the Gravitational Instability of a Medium in Nonuniform Rotation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

N. Bel  and
E. Schatzman
N. Bel
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris, France
E. Schatzman
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris, France

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We examine here the problem of the gravitational instability of a medium in nonuniform rotation. We seek therefore to resolve a problem differing somewhat from that examined by Chandrasekhar and Fricke. We imagine a gaseous medium in rotation in a potential field, ɸ, and consider only the plane problem. In the unperturbed motion, the particles describe circular orbits in uniform motion. We examine the stability against perturbations.

Type
Part IV: Cooling and Condensation of Interstellar Matter
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 8: Cosmical Gas Dynamics , July 1958 , pp. 1015 - 1016
Copyright
Copyright © American Physical Society 1958 

References

1 Chandrasekhar, S., Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. 113, 667; (1953); Astrophys. J. 119, 7 (1954).Google Scholar

2 Fricke, W., Astrophys. J. 120, 356 (1954).CrossRefGoogle Scholar