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We develop a self-consistent model of turbulence in a local interstellar medium (ISM). The model describes a partially ionized magnetofluid ISM in which a neutral hydrogen fluid interacts with a plasma dominantly through a charge exchange.…

Space Physics · Physics 2008-04-02 Dastgeer Shaikh

We systematically perform hydrodynamics simulations of 20 km s^-1 converging flows of the warm neutral medium (WNM) to calculate the formation of the cold neutral medium (CNM), especially focusing on the mean properties of the multiphase…

We analyzed absorption features arising from interstellar neutral carbon that appeared in the UV spectra of 89 stars recorded in the highest resolution echelle modes of STIS on HST so that we could determine the relative populations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-30 Edward B. Jenkins , Todd M. Tripp

The interstellar medium (ISM) consists of a multiphase gas, including the warm neutral medium (WNM), the unstable neutral medium (UNM), and the cold neutral medium (CNM). While significant attention has been devoted to understanding the WNM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-13 Yue Hu

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

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 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

We discuss the likely sources of turbulence in the ISM and explicitly calculate the detailed grand source function for the conventional sources of turbulence from supernovae, superbubbles, stellar winds and HII regions. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Colin A. Norman , Andrea Ferrara

The power spectrum of HI intensity fluctuation of the interstellar medium carries information of the turbulence dynamics therein. We present a method to estimate the power spectrum of HI intensity fluctuation using radio interferometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-05-22 Prasun Dutta , Ayesha Begum , Somnath Bharadwaj , Jayaram N. Chengalur

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…

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…

The main goal of this analysis is to present a new method to estimate the physical properties of diffuse cloud of atomic hydrogen observed at high Galactic latitude. This method, based on a comparison of the observations with fractional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes , Peter G. Martin

We present an empirical dynamical model of the local interstellar medium based on 270 radial-velocity measurements for 157 sight lines toward nearby stars. Physical-parameter measurements (i.e., temperature, turbulent velocity, depletions)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-28 Seth Redfield , Jeffrey L. Linsky

We study the dynamics of phase transitions in the interstellar medium by means of three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations. We use a realistic cooling function and generic nonequilibrium initial conditions to follow the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Michael L. Norman

Observations indicate that turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is supersonic ($M_{\rm turb}\gg1$) and strongly magnetized ($\beta\sim0.01-1$), while in the intracluster medium (ICM) it is subsonic ($M_{\rm turb}\lesssim1$) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-09 Hyunjin Cho , Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang

In this paper, the nonlinear evolution of a bistable interstellar medium is investigated using two-dimensional simulations with a realistic cooling rate, thermal conduction, and physical viscosity. The calculations are performed using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

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…

We present a semi-analytic model for the interstellar medium that considers local processes and structures of turbulent star-forming gas. A volume element of the interstellar medium is described as a multiphase system, comprising a cold and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Harald Braun , Wolfram Schmidt

The interstellar medium (ISM) of disk galaxies is turbulent, and yet the fundamental nature of ISM turbulence, the energy cascade, is not understood in detail. In this study, we use high-resolution simulations of a hydrodynamical,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-16 James R. Beattie , Anne Noer Kolborg , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Christoph Federrath

Context. It is almost banal to say that the interstellar medium (ISM) is structurally and thermodynamically complex. But the variety of the governing processes, including stellar feedback, renders the investigation challenging. High…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-30 Marco Monaci , Loris Magnani , Steven N. Shore , Henrik Olofsson , Mackenzie R. Joy