The energetics of star-disc encounters and disc density profiles
This thesis investigates the response of a circumstellar accretion disc to the fly-by of a perturbing mass on a parabolic orbit, both with and without the presence of dissipation. Observed protostellar number densities and velocity dispersions imply that collisions between protostellar systems are l...
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University of Cambridge
1997
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.599855 |