Gravitational Instability and One-Component Plasma Oscillations
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"A kinetic study is made of a system of neutral particles which interact under gravitational forces. The Jeans instability is recaptured in the limit of long wavelengths where the growth rate assumes a characteristic maximum value. As the wavelength diminishes to a certain critical distance, the instability vanishes. This distance is consistent with thermal-gravitational estimates for the diameter of a star. Plasma oscillations are found in the central region of a one-component charged gas clou…
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Liboff, Richard L.
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