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<journal-id>0185-1101</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista mexicana de astronomía y astrofísica]]></journal-title>
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<issn>0185-1101</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Astronomía]]></publisher-name>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[On the stability of a self-gravitating inhomogeneous fluid in the form of two confocal ellipsoids carrying Dedekind-type internal currents]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Cisneros]]></surname>
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<surname><![CDATA[Martínez]]></surname>
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<surname><![CDATA[Montalvo]]></surname>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí Facultad de Ciencias ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[San Luis Potosí ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí Instituto de Física ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[San Luis Potosí ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
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<year>2004</year>
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<year>2004</year>
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<volume>40</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>167</fpage>
<lpage>180</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-11012004000200004&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-11012004000200004&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-11012004000200004&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[The second order virial equations are employed to analyze, in a first approximation, the stability of a self-gravitating fluid made up of two confocal ellipsoids carrying internal currents of dierential vorticity, which allow their equilibrium. These Dedekind-type figures result because some of the members of a series of in homogeneous rotating spheroids have null frequencies, from which they bifurcate in sequences of fixed &#949;, the body's relative density. We find that such sequences have each an instability regime, which is wide at low &#949;, and becomes gradually narrower as &#949; increases. Instability persists-even for very large &#949;-at the final portion of the sequences, where the figures whose internal ellipsoid has the most prominent equatorial flattening are located.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Mediante la técnica del virial a segundo armónico se analiza, en primera aproximación, la estabilidad de un fluido autogravitante estático, tipo Dedekind, que consiste de dos elipsoides confocales de diferente densidad. Estas figuras, que mantienen su equilibrio en base a corrientes internas de vorticidad diferencial, resultan debido a que algunos de los miembros de una serie de esferoides inhomogéneos rotantes son de frecuencia nula, de donde se bifurcan en secuencias de &#949; (la densidad relativa del cuerpo) fija. Se encuentra que tales secuencias tienen un régimen de inestabilidad, el cual es tanto más amplio mientras menor sea &#949;, pero que se estrecha al incrementar &#949;. Para &#949; muy grande la inestabilidad persiste en la porción final de las secuencias, en donde se hallan las figuras cuyo elipsoide interno tiene la excentricidad ecuatorial más prominente.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Gravitation]]></kwd>
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</front><body><![CDATA[  	    <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="4"> <b>On the stability of a self-gravitating inhomogeneous fluid in the form of two confocal ellipsoids carrying Dedekind&#45;type internal currents</b></font></p>     <p align="justify">&nbsp;</p> 	    <p align="center"><font face="verdana" size="2">  <b>J. U. Cisneros,<sup>1</sup> F. J. Mart&iacute;nez,<sup>2</sup> and J. D. Montalvo<sup>2</sup> </b></font></p> 	    <p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>          <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><sup>1 </sup><i>Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Aut&oacute;noma de San Luis Potos&iacute;, &Aacute;lvaro Obreg&oacute;n No.64, 78000, San Luis Potos&iacute;, S.L.P., M&eacute;xico.</i> (<a href="mailto:cisneros@galia.fc.uaslp.mx">cisneros@galia.fc.uaslp.mx</a>). </font></p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><sup>2</sup><i> Instituto de F&iacute;sica, Universidad Aut&oacute;noma de San Luis Potos&iacute;, &Aacute;lvaro Obreg&oacute;n No.64, 78000, San Luis Potos&iacute;, S.L.P., M&eacute;xico. </i>(<a href="mailto:marherrera@galia.fc.uaslp.mx">marherrera@galia.fc.uaslp.mx</a>; <a href="mailto:montalvo@dec1.ifisica.uaslp.mx">montalvo@dec1.ifisica.uaslp.mx</a>).</font></p>      	    <p align="justify">&nbsp;</p> 	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2">Received 2004 January 5    <br>  	Accepted 2004 June 29. </font></p> 	    ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>ABSTRACT</b></font></p> 	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"> The second order virial equations are employed to analyze, in a first approximation, the stability of a self&#45;gravitating fluid made up of two confocal ellipsoids carrying internal currents of dierential vorticity, which allow their equilibrium. These Dedekind&#45;type figures result because some of the members of a <i>series</i> of in homogeneous rotating spheroids have null frequencies, from which they bifurcate in sequences of fixed &#949;, the body's relative density. We find that such sequences have each an instability regime, which is wide at low &#949;, and becomes gradually narrower as &#949; increases. Instability persists&#151;even for very large  &#949;&#151;at the final portion of the sequences, where the figures whose internal ellipsoid has the most prominent equatorial flattening are located. </font></p> 	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>Key Words:</b> Gravitation &#151; Hydrodynamics &#151; Stars: Rotation. </font></p> 	    <p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>              <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><b>RESUMEN</b></font></p> 	    <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"> Mediante la t&eacute;cnica del virial a segundo arm&oacute;nico se analiza, en primera aproximaci&oacute;n, la estabilidad de un fluido autogravitante est&aacute;tico, tipo Dedekind, que consiste de dos elipsoides confocales de diferente densidad. Estas figuras, que mantienen su equilibrio en base a corrientes internas de vorticidad diferencial, resultan debido a que algunos de los miembros de una <i>serie</i> de esferoides inhomog&eacute;neos rotantes son de frecuencia nula, de donde se bifurcan en secuencias de &#949; (la densidad relativa del cuerpo) fija. Se encuentra que tales secuencias tienen un r&eacute;gimen de inestabilidad, el cual es tanto m&aacute;s amplio mientras menor sea &#949;, pero que se estrecha al incrementar &#949;. Para &#949; muy grande la inestabilidad persiste en la porci&oacute;n final de las secuencias, en donde se hallan las figuras cuyo elipsoide interno tiene la excentricidad ecuatorial m&aacute;s prominente. </font></p> 	    <p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>     <p align="justify"><font face="verdana" size="2"><a href="/pdf/rmaa/v40n2/v40n2a4.pdf" target="_blank">DESCARGAR ART&Iacute;CULO EN FORMATO PDF</a></font></p>     <p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>     ]]></body>
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