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mass transport

(transfer of mass from one part of a body/disk to another)

The term mass transport is used to indicate the shift of mass in a gravitationally-bound set of objects from one place within it to another. An example is matter moving inward or outward in a circumstellar disk or galaxy.


(galaxies,disks,mass)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014BaltA..23..151Z/abstract

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