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The gravitational instability of an infinite homogeneous self-gravitating and finitely conducting, rotating gas-particle medium, in the presence of a uniform vertical magnetic field, is studied to include finite Larmor radius and suspended particles effects. The particular cases of the effects of rotation, finite conductivity, finite Larmor radius and suspended particles on the waves propagated along and perpendicular to magnetic field have been discussed. Jeans's criterion determines the gravitational instability.
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Sharma, R.C., Sharma, K.C. Suspended particles and the gravitational instability of a rotating plasma. Astrophys Space Sci 71, 325–332 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00639391
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