Analytic growth rate of gravitational instability in self-gravitating planar polytropes
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DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2018.837
Abstract: Gravitational instability is a key process that may lead to fragmentation of gaseous structures (sheets, filaments, haloes) in astrophysics and cosmology. We introduce here a method to derive analytic expressions for the growth rate of… read more here.
Keywords: rate gravitational; gravitational instability; self gravitating; growth rate ... See more keywords