Firehose instability
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firehose-instability-178-10987437
title:
Firehose instability
text:
The firehose instability is a dynamical instability of thin or elongated galaxies. The instability causes the galaxy to buckle or bend in a direction perpendicular to its long axis. After the instability has run its course, the galaxy is less elongated than before. Any sufficiently thin stellar system, in which some component of the internal velocity is in the form of random or counter-streaming motions, is subject to the instability. The firehose instability is probably responsible for the fact
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Dynamical instability of thin or elongated galaxies
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_instability
date created:
2009-04-29T12:58:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T15:23:44Z
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13
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