Open AccessThe fragmentation of uniformly rotating self-gravitating discs
Author(s) -
B. Fuchs
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-8711
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1093/mnras/278.4.985
Subject(s) - physics , fragmentation (computing) , astrophysics , classical mechanics , density contrast , computer science , operating system
A theoretical description of the Jeans collapse of thin, uniformly rotating, self-gravitating gaseous discs is developed. The principal modes of fragmentation, which govern the evolution of the discs, are determined. It is shown that the discs fragment into a semiregular pattern of interlaced filaments with exponentially growing density contrast. These patterns resemble very closely the patterns f...
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