Abstract

Drift-resonant Landau excitation of spiral density waves in a stellar disk of flat galaxies is proposed. This excitation of waves is suggested as a mechanism for the formation of structural features such as spiral arms and the slow dynamical relaxation of galaxies in a regime of hydrodynamical Jeans-type stability.

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