Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of the magnetopause of disc-accreting stars

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 402, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2575-2582

  Lovelace, R V E ^a,b   Romanova, M M ^a   Newman, W I ^c  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Instabilities; MHD; Stars: neutron; Waves; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; MAGNETOPAUSE; MAGNETOPLASMA; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA STABILITY; SHEAR FLOW; STARS; VELOCITY;

ACCRETION DISCS; ACCRETION RATE; ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; KELVIN- HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; LOWER DENSITY; MAGNETIC-FIELD; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; STARS: NEUTRONS; WAVELENGTH STABILITY; X-RAYS: BINARIES;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 77950929841     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.16070.x     Document Type: Article

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