Jeans instability in a magneto-radiative dusty plasma

Abstract

AbstractThe importance of thermal radiation on the Jeans instability is discussed for a magnetized dusty plasma with gravitational effects. The one-fluid MHD equations are developed by assuming that the entropy of each subsystem of plasma is conserved, when the temperature of the plasma species is non-relativistic. The dispersion relation in this case shows that thermal radiation helps to stabilize the Jeans instability. It is shown that the plasma is stable in a certain range of wavelengths. The magnetic field stabilizes the Jeans instability when the wave propagates across the magnetic field. However, for oblique propagation it is seen that the magnetic field does not stabilize the Jeans instability.