TURBULENCE IN MOLECULAR CLOUDS
Astrophysics
2016-08-30 v1
Abstract
We generate random Gaussian turbulent velocity fields with a Kolmogorov spectrum and use these to obtain synthetic line-of-sight velocity profiles. The profiles are found to be similar to line profiles observed in molecular clouds. We suggest methods for analysing measured line profiles to test whether they might arise from Gaussian Kolmogorov turbulence.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9501032,
title = {TURBULENCE IN MOLECULAR CLOUDS},
author = {John Dubinski and Ramesh Narayan and T. G. Phillips},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9501032},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
accepted in ApJ, compressed postscript, figures not included. Complete preprint available at http://ucowww.ucsc.edu/~dubinski/home.html or by request to [email protected]