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Unstable spiral modes in disk-shaped galaxies: A general fluid dynamical theory with some preliminary results

R F Pannatoni1, Y Y Lau

  • 1Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|January 1, 1979
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