The paradox of the scale-free discs

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 309, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 599-609

  Goodman, Jeremy ^a   Evans, N Wyn ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: spiral; Hydrodynamics; Instabilities

Indexed keywords

FREE DISK; GALAXIES: KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; GALAXIES: SPIRALS; ISENTROPIC; LENGTH SCALE; LINEAR MODES; NORMAL MODES; SCALE-FREE; TIME-SCALES; UNSTABLE MODES;

GALAXIES;

EID: 0007547316     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02867.x     Document Type: Article

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