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A Numerical Study of the Fission Hypothesis for Rotating Polytropes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. H. Durisen
Affiliation:
Indiana University
J. E. Tohline
Affiliation:
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

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Analytic stability analyses (Lyttleton, 1953; Chandresekhar, 1969) have shown that Maclaurin spheroids are dynamically unstable to non-axisymmetric perturbations if

Type
I. ID, 2D, and 3D Collapse of Interstellar Clouds
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Copyright © Reidel 1980

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