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Colliding supersonic bulk flows shape observable properties and internal physics of various astrophysical objects, like O-star winds, molecular clouds, galactic sheets, binaries, or gamma-ray bursts. Using numerical simulations, we show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-07 Doris Folini , Rolf Walder , Jean M. Favre

Coagulation driven by supersonic turbulence is primarily an astrophysical problem because coagulation processes on Earth are normally associated with incompressible fluid flows at low Mach numbers, while dust aggregation in the interstellar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-30 Xiang-Yu Li , Lars Mattsson

Supersonic turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is closely linked to the formation of stars, and hence many theories connect the stellar initial mass function (IMF) with the turbulent properties of molecular clouds. Here we test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 D. G. Nam , C. Federrath , M. R. Krumholz

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 the field of visual ego-motion estimation for Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), fast maneuvers stay challenging mainly because of the big visual disparity and motion blur. In the pursuit of higher robustness, we study convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Yingfu Xu , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

The power spectrum (PS) of the density field in supersonic turbulence is a fundamental quantity that characterizes the statistical properties of the structures formed in compressible flows. It is also widely used to estimate the Mach number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Pierre Dumond , Jérémy Fensch , Gilles Chabrier , Noé Brucy

Turbulent dynamics generate random fluctuations in density and velocity in the Interstellar Medium (ISM) of spiral and dwarf galaxies. Observationally, H~{\sc i} 21-cm radiation provides a good probe of these stochastic processes and helps…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-30 Meera Nandakumar

Modelling the complex physics of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) in the context of large-scale numerical simulations is a challenging task. A number of methods have been proposed to embed a description of the ISM into different codes. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-03 T. Grassi , E. Merlin , L. Piovan , U. Buonomo , C. Chiosi

Turbulence and magnetic fields are components of the interstellar medium and are interconnected through plasma processes. In particular, the magnetic flux transport in the presence of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is an essential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 C. N. Koshikumo , R. Santos-Lima , M. V. del Valle , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , G. Guerrero , A. Lazarian

We review recent results from numerical simulations and related models of MHD turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) and in molecular clouds. We discuss the implications of turbulence for the processes of cloud formation and evolution,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Vazquez-Semadeni , E. C. Ostriker , T. Passot , C. F. Gammie , J. M. Stone

Since synchrotron polarization fluctuations are related to the fundamental properties of the magnetic field, we propose the polarization intensity variance to measure the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) magnetization. We confirm the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-26 Ning-Ning Guo , Jian-Fu Zhang , Hua-Ping Xiao , Jungyeon Cho , Xue-Juan Yang

The density variance - Mach number relation of the turbulent interstellar medium is relevant for theoretical models of the star formation rate, efficiency, and the initial mass function of stars. Here we use high-resolution hydrodynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-08 Christopher A. Nolan , Christoph Federrath , Ralph S. Sutherland

Magnetic fields are crucial in numerous astrophysical processes within the interstellar medium. However, the detailed determination of magnetic field geometry is notoriously challenging. Based on the modern magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Sunil Malik , Ka Ho Yuen , Huirong Yan

Under ideal MHD conditions the magnetic field strength should be correlated with density in the interstellar medium (ISM). However, observations indicate that this correlation is weak. Ambipolar diffusion can decrease the flux-to-mass ratio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Heitsch , E. G. Zweibel , A. D. Slyz , J. E. G. Devriendt

Modern data analyses frequently encounter settings where samples of variables are contaminated by measurement error. Ignoring measurement noise can substantially degrade statistical inference, while existing correction techniques are often…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-15 Ritwik Vashistha , Jeff M. Phillips , Abhra Sarkar , Arya Farahi

I model the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and shocked by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters we understand to be typical of the solar neighbourhood. The simulations are 3D extending…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Frederick Gent

We performed numerical simulations of supersonic isothermal turbulence driven by mostly compressive large-scale forcing, using both a static grid and adaptive mesh refinement with an effective resolution N=768^3. After a transient phase…

Although there are a wealth of column density tracers for both the molecular and diffuse interstellar medium, there are very few observational studies investigating the relationship between the density variance ($\sigma^2$) and the sonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Blakesley Burkhart , A. Lazarian

The role of supersonic turbulence in structuring the interstellar medium (ISM) remains an unsettled question. Here, this problem is investigated using a newexact law of compressible isothermal hydrodynamic turbulence, which involves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-14 Renaud Ferrand , Sébastien Galtier , Fouad Sahraoui , Christoph Federrath

The transition from the diffuse warm neutral medium (WNM) to the dense cold neutral medium (CNM) is what set the initial conditions to the formation of molecular clouds. The properties of the turbulent cascade in the WNM, essential to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Antoine Marchal , Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes