Linear stability analysis of nonaxisymmetric instabilities in self-gravitating polytropic disks
xvii, 371 p. : col. ill. === An important problem in astrophysics involves understanding the formation of planetary systems. When a star-forming cloud collapses under gravity its rotation causes it to flatten into a disk. Only a small percentage of the matter near the rotation axis falls inward to c...
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University of Oregon
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11253 |