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Supersonic turbulence is a key player in controlling the structure and star formation potential of molecular clouds (MCs). The three-dimensional (3D) turbulent Mach number, $\mathcal{M}$, allows us to predict the rate of star formation.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 James R. Beattie , Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen , Nicola Schneider

The interstellar medium of the Milky Way is multi-phase, magnetized and turbulent. Turbulence in the interstellar medium produces a global cascade of random gas motions, spanning scales ranging from 100 parsecs to 1000 kilometres.…

The interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies is composed of a turbulent magnetized plasma. In order to quantitatively measure relevant turbulent parameters of the ISM, a wide variety of statistical techniques and metrics have been developed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 J. E. G. Peek , Blakesley Burkhart

We present a number of statistical tools for obtaining studying turbulence in molecular clouds and diffuse interstellar medium. For our tests we used of three-dimensional 512 cube compressible MHD isothermal simulations performed for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Blakesley Burkhart , D. Falceta-Goncalves , G. Kowal , A. Lazarian

The dynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM) are strongly affected by turbulence, which shows increased anisotropy in the presence of a magnetic field. We expand upon the Esquivel & Lazarian method to estimate the Alfven Mach number using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Blakesley Burkhart , A. Lazarian , I. C. Leao , J. R. de Medeiros , A. Esquivel

Observing 3D magnetic fields, including orientation and strength, within the interstellar medium is vital but notoriously difficult. However, recent advances in our understanding of anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-06 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian , Yan Wu , Chengcheng Fu

Supersonic flows in the interstellar medium (ISM) are believed to be a key driver of the molecular cloud formation and evolution. Among molecular clouds' properties, the ratio between the solenoidal and compressive modes of turbulence plays…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Masato I. N. Kobayashi , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Kengo Tomida , Kazunari Iwasaki , Hiroki Nakatsugawa

This study describes a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based technique for the prediction of intensity measurements (IMs) of ground shaking. The input data to the CNN model consists of multistation 3C broadband and accelerometric…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-05-13 Dario Jozinović , Anthony Lomax , Ivan Štajduhar , Alberto Michelini

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is a crucial component of the current paradigms of star formation, dynamo theory, particle transport, magnetic reconnection and evolution of structure in the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-27 Blakesley Burkhart

It is widely accepted that supersonic, magnetised turbulence plays a fundamental role for star formation in molecular clouds. It produces the initial dense gas seeds out of which new stars can form. However, the exact relation between gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-13 F. Z. Molina , S. C. O. Glover , C. Federrath , R. S. Klessen

We use a set of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of fully-developed (driven) turbulence to study the anisotropy in the velocity field that is induced by the presence of the magnetic field. In our models we study turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Alejandro Esquivel , Alex Lazarian

We propose a model for the density statistics in supersonic turbulence, which play a crucial role in star-formation and the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM). Motivated by [Hopkins, MNRAS, 430, 1880 (2013)], the model considers the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins

MHD Turbulence is a critical component of the current paradigms of star formation, particle transport, magnetic reconnection and evolution of the ISM, to name just a few. Progress on this difficult subject is made via numerical simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Blakesley Burkhart , Alex Lazarian

The probability density function (PDF) of the gas density in subsonic and supersonic, isothermal, driven turbulence is analyzed with a systematic set of hydrodynamical grid simulations with resolutions up to 1024^3 cells. We performed a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-27 Lukas Konstandin , Philipp Girichidis , Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen

Turbulence plays a key role in star formation in molecular clouds, affecting star cluster primordial properties. As modelling present-day objects hinges on our understanding of their initial conditions, better constraints on turbulence can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Piero Trevisan , Mario Pasquato , Alessandro Ballone , Michela Mapelli

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…

We introduce and test an expression for calculating the variance of a physical field in three dimensions using only information contained in the two-dimensional projection of the field. The method is general but assumes statistical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Brunt , C. Federrath , D. J. Price

In an effort to characterize the Mach numbers of ISM magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, we study the probability distribution functions (PDFs) of patial increments of density, velocity, and magnetic field for fourteen ideal isothermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Benjamin M. Tofflemire , Blakesley Burkhart , A. Lazarian

Fractional Brownian motion (fBm) structures are used to investigate the dependency of column density variance ({\sigma}_{\ln N}^2) in the turbulent interstellar medium on the variance of three-dimensional density ({\sigma}_{\ln\rho}^2) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Kwang-Il Seon

We present a study of the small-scale structure of the interstellar medium in the Milky Way. We used HST STIS data to measure N(HI) in a pencil-beam toward 59 AGNs and compared the results with the values seen at 9 arcmin - 36 arcmin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Bart P. Wakker , Felix J. Lockman , Jonathan M. Brown
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