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According to the $\Lambda CDM$ cosmological framework, galaxies underwent multiple mergers in their history. In this paper we propose to use the power spectrum of the residual fluctuations of the rotation curve velocity as a probe of past…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-10-08 Itzhak Goldman

In this presentation we review the link between the statistics of intensity fluctuations in spectral line data cubes with underlying statistical properties of turbulence in the interstellar medium. Both the formalism of Velocity Channel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri Pogosyan , Alex Lazarian

Context. Turbulence is a key component of molecular cloud structure. It is usually described by a cascade of energy down to the dissipation scale. The power spectrum for subsonic incompressible turbulence is $k^{-5/3}$, while for supersonic…

We investigate turbulent properties of the non-star-forming, translucent molecular cloud, MBM16 by applying the statistical technique of a two-dimensional spatial power spectrum (SPS) on the neutral hydrogen (HI) observations obtained by…

The turbulent dynamics of nearby and extragalactic gas structures can be studied with the column density power spectrum, which is often described by a broken power-law.In an extragalactic context, the breaks in the power spectra have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 Bastian Körtgen , Nickolas Pingel , Nicholas Killerby-Smith

Substructure in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for establishing the correlation between star formation and feedback and has the capacity to significantly perturb stellar orbits, thus playing a central role in galaxy dynamics and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Shaunak Modak , Eve C. Ostriker , Chris Hamilton , Scott Tremaine

Context: The interstellar medium (ISM) on all scales is full of structures that can be used as tracers of processes that feed turbulence. Aims: We used HI survey data to derive global properties of the angular power distribution of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-02 P. M. W. Kalberla , U. Haud

The spatial power spectrum of the HI 21 cm intensity in the Small Magellanic Cloud (Stanimirovic et al 1999) is a power law over scales as large as those of the SMC itself. It was interpreted as due to turbulence by Goldman (2000) and by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Itzhak Goldman

The azimuthal power spectra of optical emission from star formation and dust in spiral galaxies resembles the azimuthal power spectra of HI emission from the LMC. These and other power spectra of whole galaxies all resemble that of velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce G. Elmegreen

Turbulent processes at work in the intracluster medium perturb this environment, displacing gas, and creating local density fluctuations that can be quantified via X-ray surface brightness fluctuation analyses. Improved knowledge of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 Simon Dupourqué , Nicolas Clerc , Etienne Pointecouteau , Dominique Eckert , Stefano Ettori , Franco Vazza

Radio interferometric data are used to estimate the sky brightness distributions in radio frequencies. Here we focus on estimators of the large-scale structure and the power spectrum of the sky brightness distribution inferred from radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Prasun Dutta , Meera Nandakumar

Turbulent fragmentation determines where and when protostellar cores form, and how they contract and grow in mass from the surrounding cloud material. Molecular cloud regions without turbulent driving sources, or where turbulence is driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ralf Klessen

The Galactic interstellar turbulence affects the density distribution and star formation. We introduce a new method of measuring interstellar turbulent density spectra by using the dispersion measures (DMs) of a large sample of pulsars.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

In the last decade the detection of individual massive dark matter sub-halos has been possible using potential correction formalism in strong gravitational lens imaging. Here we propose a statistical formalism to relate strong gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 Saikat Chatterjee , Léon V. E. Koopmans

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

We present an analysis of rotation measure (RM) fluctuations from the Test Region of the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS), along with emission measure (EM) fluctuations in the same field taken from the Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey…

Radio-wave scintillation observations reveal a nearly Kolmogorov spectrum of density fluctuations in the ionized interstellar medium. Although this density spectrum is suggestive of turbulence, no theory relevant to its interpretation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yoram Lithwick , Peter Goldreich

We study the properties of ISM substructure and turbulence in hydrodynamic (AMR) galaxy simulations with resolutions up to 0.8 pc and 5x10^3 Msun. We analyse the power spectrum of the density distribution, and various components of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Frederic Bournaud , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Romain Teyssier , David L. Block , Ivanio Puerari

Interstellar turbulence shapes the HI distribution in the Milky Way (MW). How this affects large-scale statistical properties of HI column density across the MW remains largely unconstrained. We use approx 13,000 square-degree GALFA-HI…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-24 Amit K. Mittal , Brian L Babler , Snezana Stanimirovic , Nickolas Pingel

We estimate the power spectrum of HI intensity fluctuations for a sample of 8 galaxies (7 dwarf and one spiral). The power spectrum can be fitted to a power law P_HI(U) = A U^\alpha for 6 of these galaxies, indicating turbulence is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Prasun Dutta , Ayesha Begum , Somnath Bharadwaj , Jayaram N. Chengalur