Course 7 Taylor's constraint and torsional oscillations

Les Houches Summer School Proceedings

Volumn 88, Issue , 2008, Pages 383-401

  Dumberry, Mathieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 53349160004     PISSN: 09248099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-8099(08)80011-X     Document Type: Article

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