Linear analysis of an oscillatory instability of radiative shock waves
Linear analysis of an oscillatory instability of radiative shock waves
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辐射冲击波振荡不稳定性的线性分析
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1982
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J. Imamura
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R. Chevalier;J. Imamura
We present a linear stability analysis of a planar radiative shock with cooling function ..lambda..proportionalT/sup ..cap alpha../. We investigate an oscillatory instability similar to that found in numerical calculations of accretion onto degenerate dwarfs by Langer, Chanmugam, and Shaviv. Our analysis shows that multiple modes of oscillations are unstable for ..cap alpha..< or approx. =0.4 for the fundamental mode and ..cap alpha..< or approx. =0.8 for the first and second overtone modes. The oscillation frequency is 0.3 x/sub s/0/u/sub in/ for the fundamental mode and ranges from 0.6 x/sub s/0/u/sub in/ to 1.0 x/sub s/0/u/sub in/ for the first overtone mode for ..cap alpha.. between -1 and 2, where x/sub s/0 is the results should be applicable both to accretion onto compact objects and to radiative shock waves in the interstellar medium. The instability may explain the inability of the steady state shock wave emission models to reproduce certain observations of old supernova remnants and Herbig-Haro objects.