Viscous shear instability in weakly magnetized, dilute plasmas

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 616, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 857-864

  Balbus, Steven A ^a,b  

^a Laboratoire de Radioastronomie   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Galaxies: magnetic fields; Instabilities; Magnetic fields; MHD

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144263677     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/424989     Document Type: Article

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