INSTABILITIES IN ASTROPHYSICAL JETS

Authors
BIRKINSHAW M
Citation
M. Birkinshaw, INSTABILITIES IN ASTROPHYSICAL JETS, Astrophysics and space science, 242(1-2), 1996, pp. 17-92
Citations number
156
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Astrophysics and space science → ACNP
ISSN journal
0004640X
Volume
242
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
17 - 92
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-640X(1996)242:1-2<17:IIAJ>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The observed properties of astrophysical jets are reviewed, and the te chniques used to estimate the parameters of the underlying beams are d escribed. This information is then used in a theoretical treatment of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of the flows, and the relevance of th is instability to the persistence of the observed structures is emphas ised.