Abstract
We study the linear and the nonlinear stages of the Jeans instability of charged grains with mass md and charge qd in the regime Gmd2/qd2O(1). Various conditions for stable electrostatic levitation, condensation, and dispersion of grains in the plasma background are obtained. The nonlinear solutions show that there is a condensation of grains even when the effect of self-gravity is annulled by self-electrostatic repulsion. Astrophysical situations relevant to the results are briefly discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5599-5606 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Physical Review E |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1994 |
| Externally published | Yes |