<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vlahakis, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tsinganos, K.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">On the topological stability of astrophysical jets</style></title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</style></short-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Analytic Functions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Astrophysics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Asymptotic Methods</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Collimation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cylindrical Plasmas</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">galaxies: jets</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">INSTABILITIES</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ISM: jets and outflows</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Magnetohydrodynamic Flow</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Magnetohydrodynamic Stability</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MHD</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Plasma Jets</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PLASMAS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">stars: mass-loss</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stellar Mass Ejection</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1997</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1997/12/1</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997MNRAS.292..591V</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">292</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">591 - 600</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0035-8711</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">General theoretical arguments and various analytic self-similar solutions have recently shown that magnetized and rotating astrophysical outflows may become asymptotically cylindrical, in agreement with observations of cosmical jets. A notable common feature in all such self-consistent, self-similar MHD solutions is that before final cylindrical collimation is achieved, the jet passes from a stage of oscillations in its radius, Mach number and other physical parameters. It is shown that under rather general assumptions this oscillatory behaviour of collimated outflows is not restricted to the few specific models examined so far, but instead seems to be a rather general physical property of an MHD outflow that starts non-cylindrically before it reaches collimation. It is concluded thence that astrophysical jets are topologically stable to small-amplitude, time-independent perturbations in their asymptotically cylindrical shape. Also, similarly to the familiar fluid instabilities, these oscillations may give rise to brightness enhancements along jets.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>