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In our solar system, the densely cloud-covered atmosphere of Venus stands out as an example of how polarimetry can be used to gain information on cloud composition and particle mean radius. With current interest running high on discovering…

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We discuss a new technique for studying astrophysical turbulence that utilizes the statistics of Doppler-broadened spectral lines. The technique relates the power Velocity Coordinate Spectrum (VCS), i.e. the spectrum of fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Lazarian , D. Pogosyan

The evolution of molecular interstellar clouds is a complex, multi-scale process. The power-law density exponent describes the steepness of density profiles, and it has been used to characterize the density structures of the clouds yet its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-09 Guang-Xing Li , Ji-Xuan Zhou

The dynamical state of massive clumps is key to our understanding of the formation of massive stars. In this work, we study the kinematic properties of massive clumps using synthetic observations. We have previously compiled a very large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Zu-Jia Lu , Veli-Matti Pelkonen , Mika Juvela , Paolo Padoan , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund

Observations of the large-scale structure (LSS) implicitly assume an ideal FLRW observer with the ambient structure having no influence on the observer. However, due to correlations in the LSS, cosmological observables are dependent on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-05 Robert Reischke , Björn malte Schäfer , Krzysztof Bolejko , Geraint F. Lewis , Max Lautsch

Given a computer model of a physical object, it is often quite difficult to visualize and quantify any global effects on the shape representation caused by local uncertainty and local errors in the data. This problem is further amplified…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-10-22 Chandrajit Bajaj , Andrew Gillette , Samrat Goswami , Bong June Kwon , Jose Rivera

Probability distribution functions (PDFs) of column densities are an established tool to characterize the evolutionary state of interstellar clouds. Using simulations, we show to what degree their determination is affected by noise,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Volker Ossenkopf-Okada , Timea Csengeri , Nicola Schneider , Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen

Determining accurate plasma Doppler (line-of-sight) velocities from spectroscopic measurements is a challenging endeavour, especially when weak chromospheric absorption lines are often rapidly evolving and, hence, contain multiple spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Conor D. MacBride , David B. Jess , Samuel D. T. Grant , Elena Khomenko , Peter H. Keys , Marco Stangalini

Aims: Accretion rates in low-mass protostars can be highly variable in time. Each accretion burst is accompanied by a temporary increase in luminosity, heating up the circumstellar envelope and altering the chemical composition of the gas…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ruud Visser , Edwin A. Bergin , Jes K. Jorgensen

The sparse and spatio-temporally discontinuous nature of precipitation data presents significant challenges for simulation and statistical processing for bias correction and downscaling. These include incorrect representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Gokul Radhakrishnan , Rahul Sundar , Nishant Parashar , Antoine Blanchard , Daiwei Wang , Boyko Dodov

Isothermal-isobaric molecular dynamics simulations are used to examine the microscopic structure and some properties of water-methanol liquid mixture. The TIP4P/2005 and SPC/E water models are combined with the united atom TraPPE and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-28 M. Cruz Sanchez , H. Dominguez , O. Pizio

We introduce the first comprehensive approach to determine the uncertainty in volumetric Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) measurements. Volumetric PTV is a state-of-the-art non-invasive flow measurement technique, which measures the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Sayantan Bhattacharya , Pavlos P. Vlachos

The properties of filamentary interstellar clouds observed at sub-millimetre wavelengths, especially by the Herschel Space Observatory, are analysed with polytropic models in cylindrical symmetry. The observed radial density profiles are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Claudia Toci , Daniele Galli

Mesoscale simulations of woven composites using parameterized analytical geometries offer a way to connect constituent material properties and their geometric arrangement to effective composite properties and performance. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-21 Collin W. Foster , Lincoln N. Collins , Francesco Panerai , Scott A. Roberts

We investigate the spectral correlations between different species used to observe molecular clouds. We use hydrodynamic simulations and a full chemical network to study the abundances of over 150 species in typical Milky Way molecular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Brandt A. L. Gaches , Stella S. R. Offner , Erik W. Rosolowsky , Thomas G. Bisbas

We present a numerical technique to compute the gravitational lensing induced by simulated haloes. It relies on a 2D-Tree domain decomposition in the lens plane combined with a description of N-Body particles as extended clouds with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dominique Aubert , Adam Amara , R. Benton Metcalf

The dominant paradigm in computational materials discovery relies on heavily parameterized deep architectures, including message-passing graph networks and equivariant models, that require millions of DFT-labeled training structures and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Pranoy Ray , Surya R. Kalidindi

Describing how the properties of the interstellar medium combine across size-scales is crucial for understanding star formation scaling laws and connecting Galactic and extragalactic data of molecular clouds. We describe how the statistical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-15 Andri Spilker , Jouni Kainulainen , Jan Orkisz

We analyze hydrodynamic simulations of turbulent, star-forming molecular clouds that are post-processed with the photo-dissociation region astrochemistry code 3D-PDR. We investigate the sensitivity of 15 commonly applied turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 Ryan D. Boyden , Stella S. R. Offner , Eric W. Koch , Erik W. Rosolowsky

Numerical simulations indicate that cosmological halos display power-law radial profiles of pseudo phase-space density (PPSD), Q=rho/sigma^3, where rho is mass density and sigma velocity dispersion. We test these predictions using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 A. Biviano , G. A. Mamon