Summary: Not. Astron. 1353--1362 (2005) doi:10.1111/j.1365­2966.2005.09406.x
stability analysis radiative shocks the presence transverse
magnetic field
Babulakshmanan Ramachandran
# and Michael Smith
Armagh Observatory, College Armagh 9DG
Accepted
5. Received 2005 original form April
1
ABSTRACT Radiative shock waves may subject global thermal instability which cooling layer
shock undergo growing resonant oscillations. strong hydrodynamic shocks,
presence overstability depends temperature density indices power­law
cooling functions and specific heat ratio
(
# respectively). Here, investigate
stabilizing influence transverse magnetic field introducing shock Alfv’en number,
M
a
, fourth parameter. thus investigate stability criteria molecular and atomic
shocks under

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