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most citedZombie Vortex Instability I: A Purely Hydrodynamic Instability to Resurrect the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks

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Zombie Vortex Instability. III. Persistence with Nonuniform Stratification and Radiative Damping

Joseph Barranco, Suyang Pei, Philip Marcus

The Zombie Vortex Instability (ZVI) occurs in the dead zones of protoplanetary disks (PPDs) where perturbations excite baroclinic critical layers, generating "zombie" vortices and…