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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

We investigate the scale dependence of fluctuations inside a realistic model of an evolving turbulent HII region and to what extent these may be studied observationally. We find that the multiple scales of energy injection from champagne…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 S. -N. X. Medina , S. J. Arthur , W. J. Henney , G. Mellema , A. Gazol

Emission in spectral lines can provide unique information on interstellar turbulence. Doppler shifts due to supersonic motions contain information on turbulent velocity field which is otherwise difficult to measure. However, the problem of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Lazarian

Based on the theoretical description of Position-Position-Velocity(PPV) statistics in Lazarian & Pogosyan(2000), we introduce a new technique called the Velocity Decomposition Algorithm(VDA) in separating the PPV fluctuations arising from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 Ka Ho Yuen , Ka Wai Ho , Alex Lazarian

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

In this paper we test the results of a recent analytical study by Lazarian and Pogosyan, on the statistics of emissivity in velocity channel maps, in the case of realistic density and velocity fields obtained from numerical simulations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Alex Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Barbara Pichardo

Recent 21 cm radio observations of H$_I$ regions in the Small Magellanic Cloud, have revealed spatial power spectra of the intensity, which are quite similar in shape to those previously deduced for the Galaxy. The similarity, in spite the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Itzhak Goldman

The distribution of atomic hydrogen in the Galactic plane is usually mapped using the Doppler shift of 21cm emission line. We calculate the emission spectrum in velocity slices of data (channel maps) and derive its dependence on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Lazarian , D. Pogosyan

Small-scale fluctuations of different tracers of the interstellar the medium can be used to study the nature of turbulence in astrophysical scales. Of these, the `continuum' emission traces the fluctuations integrated along the line of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy

The transport of energetic particles is intimately related to the properties of plasma turbulence, a ubiquitous dynamic process that transfers energy across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. However, the mechanisms governing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Siqi Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu

Turbulence influences the structure and dynamics of molecular clouds, and plays a key role in regulating star formation. We therefore need methods to accurately infer turbulence properties of molecular clouds from position-position-velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-12 Jayashree Narayan , Aris Tritsis , Christoph Federrath

Theoretical considerations are made of superfluid turbulence in the Kelvin wave cascade regime at low temperatures (T < 1K) and length scales of the order or smaller than the intervortical distance. The energy spectrum is shown to be in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-07 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

Understanding the properties of interstellar turbulence is a great intellectual challenge and the urge to solve this problem is partially motivated by a necessity to explain the star formation mystery. This review deals with a recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lazarian

Recent results on the stationary state Fluctuation Theorems for work and heat fluctuations of Langevin systems are presented. The relevance of finite time corrections in understanding experimental and simulation results is explained in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-31 E. G. D. Cohen , Ramses van Zon

Recent experimental observations have demonstrated interesting instability phenomenon during thermal drawing of microstructured glass/polymer fibers, and these observations motivate us to examine surface-tension-driven instabilities in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-08-12 D. S. Deng , J. -C. Nave , X. Liang , S. G. Johnson , Y. Fink

Subcritical transition of an inhomogeneous plasma where turbulences with different characteristic space-time scales coexist is analyzed with methods of statistical physics of turbulences. We derived the development equations of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mitsuhiro Kawasaki , Sanae-I. Itoh , Kimitaka Itoh

A fundamental aspect of turbulence theory is related to the identification of realizable phase-space statistical descriptions able to reproduce in some suitable sense the stochastic fluid equations of a turbulent fluid. In particular, a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Tessarotto , M. Ellero , P. Nicolini

A reduced 1D model describing the non-linear hybrid LIGKA/HAGIS simulations was developed and successfully tested in [Carlevaro et al. PPCF 64, 035010 (2022)] addressing the ITER 15MA baseline scenario. In this paper, we introduce a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Nakia Carlevaro , Matteo V. Falessi , Giovanni Montani , Philipp Lauber

We study fluctuations of the local energy cascade rate $\Phi_\ell$ in turbulent flows at scales ($\ell$) in the inertial range. According to the Kolmogorov refined similarity hypothesis (KRSH), relevant statistical properties of $\Phi_\ell$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-29 H. Yao , P. K. Yeung , T. A. Zaki , C. Meneveau

We investigate the effect of star formation on turbulence in the Orion A and Ophiuchus clouds using principal component analysis (PCA). We measure the properties of turbulence by applying PCA on the spectral maps in $^{13}$CO, C$^{18}$O,…

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