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Published March 1, 1985 | Published
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Non-axisymmetric instability in thin discs

Abstract

Thin discs of arbitrary specific angular momentum are shown to have unstable non-axisymmetric modes provided there is at least one good reflecting edge.

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© 1984 Royal Astronomical Society. Accepted 1984 December 10. Received 1984 December 10, in original form 1984 November 13. We thank Roger Blandford, Jeremy Goodman, John Papaloizou, Alar Toomre and Scott Tremaine for several useful discussions. We also thank John Papaloizou and Jim Pringle for communicating their results before publication. Financial support by the National Science Foundation under grants AST 82-13001 and AST 83-13725 is gratefully acknowledged.

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