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Published September 1, 1987 | Published
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Physics of modes in a differentially rotating system - analysis of the shearing sheet

Abstract

We analyse the linear non-vortical modes of the shearing sheet, a model compressible two-dimensional fluid system with constant density, constant shear, and Coriolis force. This model has several features found in differentially rotating systems of interest in astrophysics, such as disc galaxies, accretion tori, planetary rings, protostellar nebulae, and possibly even rotating stars.

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© 1987 Royal Astronomical Society. Accepted 1987 March 24. Received 1987 February 16. RN was supported by NSF grant AST-8611121, PG by NSF grant AST-8313725, and JG by a W. M. Keck Foundation grant and by NSF grant PHY-8217352.

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