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The complex interplay between turbulence, magnetic fields, and self-gravity leads to the formation of molecular clouds out of the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). One avenue of studying this interplay is by analyzing statistical features…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Frank Otto , Weiguang Ji , Hua-bai Li

Observations have suggested substantial departures from pressure equilibrium in the interstellar medium (ISM) in the plane of the Galaxy, even on scales under 50 pc. Nevertheless, multi-phase models of the ISM assume at least locally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Dinshaw Balsara , Miguel A. Avillez , Jongsoo Kim

A modified method is presented to generate artificial magnetic turbulence that is used for test-particle simulations. Such turbulent fields are obtained from the superposition of a set of wave modes with random polarizations and random…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-17 R. C. Tautz , A. Dosch

[abridged] The interstellar medium is now widely recognized to display features ascribable to magnetized turbulence. With the public release of Planck data and the current balloon-borne and ground-based experiments, the growing amount of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 F. Levrier , J. Neveu , E. Falgarone , F. Boulanger , A. Bracco , T. Ghosh , F. Vansyngel

To evaluate the effect of turbulent heating in the thermal balance of interstellar clouds, we develop an extension of the log-Poisson intermittency model to supersonic turbulence. The model depends on a parameter, d, interpreted as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Liubin Pan , Paolo Padoan

We have designed a simple multi-scale method that identifies turbulent motions in hydrodynamical grid simulations. The method does not assmume ant a-priori coherence scale to distinguish laminar and turbulent flows. Instead, the local mean…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 F. Vazza , E. Roediger , M. Brueggen

A wide variety of astrophysical phenomena involve the flow of turbulent magnetized gas with relativistic velocity or energy density. Examples include gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei, pulsars, magnetars, micro-quasars, merging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

The intergalactic medium (IGM) underwent intense heating that resulted in pressure disequilibrium in the wake of ionization fronts during cosmic reionization. The dynamical relaxation to restore pressure balance may have driven small-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Christopher Cain , Matthew McQuinn , Evan Scannapieco , Anson D'Aloisio , Hy Trac

We study two limiting cases of turbulence forcing in numerical experiments: solenoidal (divergence-free) forcing, and compressive (curl-free) forcing, and compare our results to observations reported in the literature. We solve the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-16 C. Federrath , J. Roman-Duval , R. Klessen , W. Schmidt , M. -M. Mac Low

Multiphase gas -- ranging from cold molecular clouds ($\lesssim 100\,$K) to hot, diffuse plasma ($\gtrsim 10^6\,$K) is a defining feature of the interstellar, circumgalactic, intracluster, and intergalactic media. Accurately simulating its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-26 Max Gronke , Evan Schneider

{It is well established that the atomic interstellar hydrogen is filling the galaxies and constitutes the building blocks of molecular clouds.} {To understand the formation and the evolution of molecular clouds, it is necessary to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Audit , P. Hennebelle

We model the complex distribution of atomic hydrogen (HI) in the interstellar medium (ISM) assuming that it is driven entirely by supernovae (SN). We develop and assess two different models. In the first approach, the simulated volume is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacqueline A. Hodge , Avinash A. Deshpande

We present 50 individual measurements of the gas temperature and turbulent velocity in the local interstellar medium (LISM) within 100 pc. By comparing the absorption line widths of many ions with different atomic masses, we can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Seth Redfield , Jeffrey L. Linsky

The interstellar atomic hydrogen is known to be a 2-phase medium in which turbul ence plays an important r\^ole. Here we present high resolution numerical simulations describing the gas from tens of parsec down to hundreds of AU. This high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Hennebelle , E. Audit

We analyze a suite of thin sheet magnetohydrodynamical simulations based on the formulation of Basu, Ciolek, Dapp & Wurster. These simulations allow us to examine the observational consequences to a star-forming region of varying the input…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Helen Kirk , Doug Johnstone , Shantanu Basu

Using numerical simulations of galactic disks resolving scales from ~1 to several hundred pc, we investigate dynamical properties of the multiphase ISM with turbulence driven by star formation feedback. We focus on HII region effects by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 H. Koyama , E. C. Ostriker

Supernova explosions, active galactic nuclei jets, galaxy--galaxy interactions and cluster mergers can drive turbulence in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and in the intracluster medium (ICM). However, the exact nature of turbulence forced…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-16 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Christoph Federrath , Prateek Sharma

The gas motions in the intracluster medium (ICM) are governed by stratified turbulence. Stratified turbulence is fundamentally different from Kolmogorov (isotropic, homogeneous) turbulence; kinetic energy not only cascades from large to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-26 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Christoph Federrath , Prateek Sharma

The transport of charged energetic particles in the presence of strong intermittent heliospheric turbulence is computationally analyzed based on known properties of the interplanetary magnetic field and solar wind plasma at 1 Astronomical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Fathallah Alouani-Bibi , Jakobus A. le Roux

Three-dimensional turbulence is usually studied experimentally by using a spatially localized forcing at large scales (e.g. via rotating blades or oscillating grids), often in a deterministic way. Here, we report an original technique where…