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Fig. 1.

Linear growth rate g as a function of the radial wave number kx for different equilibrium Toomre values Q0 and a cooling time β = τcΩ0 = 10. The straight dotted line gives the damping rate in numerical simulations (∝k2) for a damping coefficient D(2) = 0.1 (see Sect. 4).
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