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Stability Properties of VLBI Jets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

M. Birkinshaw
M. Birkinshaw*
Affiliation:
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OHE, U.K.

Abstract

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The growth lengths of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities are calculated for three vortex-sheet bounded beams with v = 0.9c. These beams survive the action of the instability for distances of several hundred beam radii, but no prediction of a single dominant mode of breakup can be made.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 110: VLBI and Compact Radio Sources , 1984 , pp. 229 - 230
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984 

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