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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 dissipation of kinetic and magnetic energy in the interstellar medium (ISM) can proceed through viscous, Ohmic or ambipolar diffusion (AD). It occurs at very small scales compared to the scales at which energy is presumed to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-13 Georgios Momferratos , Pierre Lesaffre , Edith Falgarone , Guillaume Pineau des Forêts

Turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) plays an important role in many physical processes, including forming stars and shaping complex ISM structures. In this work, we investigate the HI turbulent properties of the Small Magellanic…

Polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust is the dominant foreground for CMB polarization measurements at high frequencies, with its statistical properties set by the interplay between turbulence and magnetic fields in the multiphase…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 Yue Hu , Bao Truong , Thiem Hoang , Le Ngoc Tram

An overview is presented of the main properties of the interstellar medium. Evidence is summarized that the interstellar medium is highly turbulent, driven on different length scales by various energetic processes. Large-scale turbulence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Burkert

Studies of MHD turbulence often investigate the Fourier power spectrum to provide information on the nature of the turbulence cascade. However, the Fourier power spectrum only contains the Fourier amplitudes and rejects all information…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Blakesley Burkhart , Alex Lazarian

The Interstellar Medium (ISM) is a complex, multi-phase system, where the history of the stars occurs. The processes of birth and death of stars are strongly coupled to the dynamics of the ISM. The observed chaotic and diffusive motions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-02 D. Falceta-Goncalves

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

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

Turbulence is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM) of the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies. The energy source for this turbulence has been much debated with many possible origins proposed. The universality of turbulence, its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Falceta-Goncalves , I. Bonnell , G. Kowal , J. Lepine , C. Braga

Context. The interstellar medium is affected by turbulence and observed H i structures in channel maps are shaped by turbulent motions. It is taken for granted by a few theoreticians that observed H i structures do not represent real…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-05 P. M. W. Kalberla , U. Haud

We estimate the \HI intensity fluctuation power spectrum for a sample of 18 spiral galaxies chosen from THINGS. Our analysis spans a large range of length-scales from $\sim 300 {\rm pc}$ to $\sim 16 {\rm kpc}$ across the entire galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-28 Prasun Dutta , Ayesha Begum , Somnath Bharadwaj , Jayaram N. Chengalur

Dealing numerically with the turbulent nature and non-linearity of the physical processes involved in the ISM requires the use of sophisticated numerical schemes coupled to HD and MHD mathematical models. SNe are the main drivers of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel A. de Avillez , Dieter Breitschwerdt

The hydrodynamic state of the interstellar medium (ISM) heated and randomly stirred by supernovae (SNe) is investigated. We use a three-dimensional non-ideal hydrodynamic ISM model in a domain extending 0.5 x 0.5 kpc horizontally and 2 kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-04 Frederick Gent , Maarit J. Mantere , Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Fletcher , Graeme R. Sarson

Unraveling the multi-phase structure of the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) as traced by neutral hydrogen (HI) is essential to understanding the lifecycle of the Milky Way. However, HI phase separation is a challenging and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Minjie Lei , S. E. Clark , Rudy Morel , E. Allys , Iryna S. Butsky , Caleb Redshaw , Drummond B. Fielding

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

Recent numerical simulations of the interstellar medium driven by energy input from supernovae and stellar winds indicate that HI clouds can be formed by compression in shock waves and colliding turbulent streams without any help from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anvar Shukurov

Several different methods are regularly used to infer the properties of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) using atomic hydrogen (H I) 21cm absorption and emission spectra. In this work, we study various techniques used for inferring ISM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-27 Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee , Nirupam Roy , Prateek Sharma , Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

We present a study of the structure of the Galactic interstellar medium through the Delta-variance technique, related to the power spectrum and the fractal properties of infrared/sub-mm maps. Through this method, it is possible to provide…

The mechanisms that maintain turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) are still not identified. This work investigates how we can distinguish between two fundamental driving mechanisms: the accumulated effect of stellar feedback versus…