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The interstellar medium (ISM) is ubiquitously turbulent across many physically distinct environments within the Galaxy. Turbulence is key in controlling the structure and dynamics of the ISM, regulating star formation, and transporting…

Intermittency is an essential property of astrophysical fluids, which demonstrate an extended inertial range. As intermittency violates self-similarity of motions, it gets impossible to naively extrapolate the properties of fluid obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 A. Lazarian

Turbulence is a key element of the dynamics of astrophysical fluids, including those of interstellar medium, clusters of galaxies and circumstellar regions. Turbulent motions induce Doppler shifts of observable emission and absorption lines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-27 A. Chepurnov , A. Lazarian

Density is the turbulence statistics that is most readily available from observations. Different regimes of turbulence correspond to different density spectra. For instance, the viscosity-damped regime of MHD turbulence relevant, for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-03 A. Lazarian , G. Kowal , A. Beresnyak

Synthetic observations are playing an increasingly important role across astrophysics, both for interpreting real observations and also for making meaningful predictions from models. In this review, we provide an overview of methods and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-12 Thomas J. Haworth , Simon C. O. Glover , Christine M. Koepferl , Thomas G. Bisbas , James E. Dale

Turbulence is the most common state of astrophysical flows. In typical astrophysical fluids, turbulence is accompanied by strong magnetic fields, which has a large impact on the dynamics of the turbulent cascade. Recently, there has been a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lazarian , Jungyeon Cho , Huirong Yan

A program is outlined, and first results described, in which fully three-dimensional, time dependent simulations of hydrodynamic turbulence are used as a basis for theoretical investigation of the physics of turbulence in stars. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 W. David Arnett , Casey Meakin

We propose a model for the density statistics in supersonic turbulence, which play a crucial role in star-formation and the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM). Motivated by [Hopkins, MNRAS, 430, 1880 (2013)], the model considers the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins

I review recent results derived from numerical simulations of the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM), in particular concerning the nature and formation of turbulent clouds, methods for comparing the structure in simulations and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni

HI data cubes are sources of unique information on interstellar turbulence. Doppler shifts due to supersonic motions contain information on turbulent velocity field which is otherwise difficult to obtain. However, the problem of separation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lazarian , D. Pogosyan , Alejandro Esquivel

Velocity statistics is a direct probe of the dynamics of interstellar turbulence. Its observational measurements are very challenging due to the convolution between density and velocity and projection effects. We introduce the projected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Siyao Xu

Numerical models of the dynamical interstellar medium show that interactions between structures such as supernova remnants and superbubbles are more important than the structures themselves in determining the behavior of the ISM. I review…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Developing a theory of low-mass star formation ($\sim 0.1$ to 3~M$_{\odot}$) remains one of the most elusive and important goals of theoretical astrophysics. The star-formation process is the outcome of the complex dynamics of interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard I. Klein , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Paolo Padoan , Kohji Tomisaka

I review recent results from numerical simulations on the structure and dynamics of the ISM, and attempt to put together a coherent dynamical scenario. In particular, I discuss results on 1) the spatial distribution of the gas components,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

This chapter reviews the nature of turbulence in the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) and its connections to the star formation (SF) process. The ISM is turbulent, magnetized, self-gravitating, and is subject to heating and cooling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

Magnetised turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysical systems, where it notoriously spans a broad range of spatial scales. Phenomenological theories of MHD turbulence describe the self-similar dynamics of turbulent fluctuations in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Joanne Mason , Jean Carlos Perez , Fausto Cattaneo , Stanislav Boldyrev

We study, by means of adaptive mesh refinement hydro- and magnetohydrodynamical simulations that cover a wide range of scales (from kpc to sub-parsec), the dimension of the most dissipative structures and the injection scale of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Miguel A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt

Turbulence is a key process in many fields of astrophysics. Advances in numerical simulations of fluids over the last several decades have revolutionized our understanding of turbulence and related processes such as star formation and…

The injection and evolution of turbulence in the intergalactic medium is studied by means of mesh-based hydrodynamical simulations, including a subgrid scale (SGS) model for small-scale unresolved turbulence. The simulations show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-03 L. Iapichino , W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer , J. Merklein

Exploration of plasma dynamics in space, including turbulence, is entering a new era of multi-satellite constellation measurements that will determine fundamental properties with unprecedented precision. Familiar but imprecise…