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A grain plasma model of galaxies†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

E. R. Wollmanm
E. R. Wollmanm
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
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Abstract

Electrical quasi-neutrality is not a general property of a thermalized self-gravitating plasma. If the massive component of a two-component plasma consists of charged macroscopic solid grains for which the charge-to-mass ratio is of order then self-gravitation and thermalization lead to substantial large-scale charge separation. An alternative statement of the condition for substantial equilibrium charge separation is that the Jeans length and Debye length of the plasma are similar.

We consider a system of condensations in such a plasma and show that properties of the system are similar to observed properties of the system of galaxies.

Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 1988 , pp. 545 - 553
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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