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Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence plays a critical role in many key astrophysical processes such as star formation, acceleration of cosmic rays, and heat conduction. However, its properties are still poorly understood. We explore how to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-30 Ru-Yue Wang , Jian-Fu Zhang , Fang Lu , Fu-Yuan Xiang

We present a number of statistical tools for obtaining studying turbulence in molecular clouds and diffuse interstellar medium. For our tests we used of three-dimensional 512 cube compressible MHD isothermal simulations performed for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Blakesley Burkhart , D. Falceta-Goncalves , G. Kowal , A. Lazarian

We report experiments on gravity-capillary wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid. The wave amplitudes are measured simultaneously in time and space using an optical method. The full space-time power spectrum shows that the wave energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-01 Eric Herbert , Nicolas Mordant , Eric Falcon

We describe results from particle-in-cell simulations of driven turbulence in collisionless, magnetized, relativistic pair plasma. This physical regime provides a simple setting for investigating the basic properties of kinetic turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Vladimir Zhdankin , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman

In an attempt to determine the outer scale of turbulence driven by localized sources, such as supernova explosions in the interstellar medium, we consider a forcing function given by the gradient of gaussian profiles localized at random…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antony J. Mee , Axel Brandenburg

The interstellar medium (ISM) is turbulent on all scales and in all phases. In this paper, we study turbulence with different tracers in four nearby star-forming regions: Orion, Ophiuchus, Perseus, and Taurus. We combine the APOGEE-2 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Trung Ha , Yuan Li , Marina Kounkel , Siyao Xu , Hui Li , Yong Zheng

In this study we explore the statistics of pressure fluctuations in kinetic collisionless turbulence. A 2.5D kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation of decaying turbulence is used to investigate pressure balance via the evolution of…

Dust polarization is a powerful tool for studying the magnetic field properties in the interstellar medium (ISM). However, it does not provide a direct measurement of its strength. Different methods havebeen developed which employ both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Raphael Skalidis , Konstantinos Tassis

The radial profiles of gas, stars, and far ultraviolet radiation in 20 dwarf Irregular galaxies are converted to stability parameters and scale heights for a test of the importance of two-dimensional (2D) instabilities in promoting star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Deidre A. Hunter

Turbulence in curved spacetimes in general, and in the vicinity of black holes (BHs) in particular, represents a poorly understood phenomenon that is often analysed employing techniques developed for flat spacetimes. We here propose a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Rita Megale , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Giuseppe Ficarra , Mario Imbrogno , Claudio Meringolo , Leonardo Primavera , Luciano Rezzolla , Sergio Servidio

Conventional techniques that measure rapid time variations are inefficient or inadequate to discover and observe rapidly pulsating astronomical sources. It is therefore conceivable that there exist some classes of objects pulsating with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ermanno F Borra

We use the data of Wisconsin H$\alpha$ Mapper (WHAM) to test the hypothesis of whether the amplitudes and spectrum of density fluctuations measured by WHAM can be matched to the data obtained for interstellar scintillations and scattering.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-11 A. Chepurnov , A. Lazarian

We develop a straightforward analytical framework for the propagation of spatial light modes through a turbulent atmosphere. Built upon the split-step approach with the mode-based optical field representation, it directly assesses how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Konstantin Kravtsov

The precision of intensity measurements of the extragalactic X-ray Background (XRB) on an angular scale of about a degree is dominated by spatial fluctuations caused by source confusion noise. X-ray source counts at the flux level…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 X. Barcons , A. C. Fabian , F. J. Carrera

This is the second paper of a series in which we attempt to put constraints on the flattening of dark halos in disk galaxies. For this purpose, we observe the HI in edge-on galaxies, where it is in principle possible to measure the force…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 J. C. O'Brien , K. C. Freeman , P. C. van der Kruit

Magnetic fields in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) are a key element in understanding Galactic dynamics, but there are many observational challenges. One useful probe for studying the magnetic field component parallel to the line of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 N. C. Raycheva , M. Haverkorn , S. Ideguchi , J. M. Stil , B. M. Gaensler , X. Sun , J. L. Han , E. Carretti , X. Y. Gao , T. Wijte

MHD Turbulence is a critical component of the current paradigms of star formation, particle transport, magnetic reconnection and evolution of the ISM. Progress on this difficult subject is made via numerical simulations and observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-06 Blakesley Burkhart , Alex Lazarian

High-resolution numerical simulations are utilized to examine isotropic turbulence in a compressible fluid when long wavelength velocity fluctuations approach light speed. Spectral analysis reveals an inertial sub-range of relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-04 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

Turbulence is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM) of the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies. The energy source for this turbulence has been much debated with many possible origins proposed. The universality of turbulence, its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Falceta-Goncalves , I. Bonnell , G. Kowal , J. Lepine , C. Braga

The Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope(FAST) is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. In this paper, we make forecast on the FAST HI large scale structure survey by mock observations. We consider a drift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-30 Wenkai Hu , Xin Wang , Fengquan Wu , Yougang Wang , Pengjie Zhang , Xuelei Chen