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The Hose-Pipe Instability in Stellar Systems

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Gravitational N-Body Problem

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 31))

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Indications are that instabilities play an important role in many of the phenomena of stellar dynamics. Examples of such phenomena are: the formation of spiral arms, and the evolution of stellar clusters at a rate faster than one would expect from normal two-body collisions. The analogy with the situation in plasma physics, where similar phenomena are known to be dominated by instabilities, is very suggestive that one might seek for instabilities in stellar dynamics that correspond to similar ones in plasma physics.

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  1. James W. K. Mark

    Present address: Laboratori Gas Ionizzati, Frascati, Italy

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  1. Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540, USA

    R. M. Kulsrud & James W. K. Mark

  2. Mathematics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA

    A. Caruso

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  1. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., USA

    Myron Lecar

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Kulsrud, R.M., Mark, J.W.K., Caruso, A. (1972). The Hose-Pipe Instability in Stellar Systems. In: Lecar, M. (eds) Gravitational N-Body Problem. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2870-7_21

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