Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1977
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977ap%26ss..52..429k&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 52, no. 2, Dec. 1977, p. 429-434.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Earth Magnetosphere, Gravitational Effects, Neutral Sheets, Plasma Cylinders, Astrophysics, Energy Storage, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Virial Theorem
Scientific paper
This paper discusses the possibility of using the Chandrasekhar and Fermi (1953) model of gravitational instabilities in superconductive infinite cylinders subjected to magnetic fields to explain explosions arising from plasma accumulations in neutral regions in certain magnetospheres and solar explosions in particular. The cylinder (or sausage) might result from neutral-sheet collapse when critical conditions are attained. The cylinder is unstable, from the virial theorem. A transverse perturbation of given amplitude and wavelength equivalent to the Alfven wavelength might break up the cylinder into gravitationally unstable pieces, for which the product of the amplitude squared and the wavelength is approximately constant. The overall 'event' might eventually be idealized as a string of explosive spots.
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