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magnetorotational instability: a standalone construct

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an instability of weakly magnetized, differentially rotating disks that drives turbulence and outward angular momentum transport in accretion disks.

In astrophysics, magnetorotational instability refers to an instability of weakly magnetized, differentially rotating disks that drives turbulence and outward angular momentum transport in accretion disks. This meaning comes from Balbus (1991) in The Astrophysical Journal.[1]

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References

Balbus, S. A., & Hawley, J. F. (1991). A powerful local shear instability in weakly magnetized disks. I - Linear analysis. II - Nonlinear evolution. The Astrophysical Journal, 376, 214. https://doi.org/10.1086/170270

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