VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR SLENDER FLUX TUBES .2. STABILITY OF FLUX TUBES IN A DISK

Authors
ACHTERBERG A
Citation
A. Achterberg, VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR SLENDER FLUX TUBES .2. STABILITY OF FLUX TUBES IN A DISK, Astronomy and astrophysics, 313(3), 1996, pp. 1016-1025
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Astronomy and astrophysics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00046361
Volume
313
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1016 - 1025
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-6361(1996)313:3<1016:VPFSFT>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The variational principle for slender flux tubes derived in Paper I is used to investigate linear waves and the linear stability of slender flux tubes. It is shown that weakly magnetised tubes embedded in a dif ferentially rotating disk are almost always unstable.