Amplification, saturation, and Q thresholds for runaway: Growth of self-gravitating structures in models of magnetized galactic gas disks

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 559, Issue 1 PART 1, 2001, Pages 70-95

  Kim, Woong Tae ^a   Ostriker, Eve C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: ISM; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: structure; Instabilities; ISM: kinematics and dynamics; ISM: magnetic fields; MHD; Stars: formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035922265     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/322330     Document Type: Article

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