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astro-ph.SR2016★ 36 cited

Zombie Vortex Instability. II. Thresholds to Trigger Instability and the Properties of Zombie Turbulence in the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks

Philip S. Marcus, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang +1

In Zombie Vortex Instability (ZVI), perturbations excite critical layers in stratified, rotating shear flow (as in protoplanetary disks), causing them to generate vortex layers, wh…