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Supersonic turbulence is an essential element in understanding how structure within interstellar gas is created and shaped. In the context of star formation, many computational studies show that the mass spectrum of density and velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Ralph E. Pudritz , N. K. -R. Kevlahan

Context. Supersonic disordered flows accompany the formation and evolution of MCs. It has been argued that turbulence can support against gravitational collapse and form hierarchical sub-structures. Aims. We study the time evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Roxana-Adela Chira , Juan~Camilo Ibáñez-Mejía , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Thomas Henning

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

We investigate the gravitational instability of galactic discs, treating stars and cold interstellar gas as two distinct components, and taking into account the phenomenology of turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM), i.e. the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-29 Volker Hoffmann , Alessandro B. Romeo

I discuss the role of self-gravity and radiative heating and cooling in shaping the nature of the turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) of our galaxy. The heating and cooling cause it to be highly compressible, and, in some regimes of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-22 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

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

Context: The interstellar medium (ISM) on all scales is full of structures that can be used as tracers of processes that feed turbulence. Aims: We used HI survey data to derive global properties of the angular power distribution of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-02 P. M. W. Kalberla , U. Haud

HI spatial power spectra (PS) were determined for a sample of 24 nearby dwarf irregular galaxies selected from the LITTLE THINGS (Local Irregulars That Trace Luminosity Extremes - The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey) sample. The two-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hong-Xin Zhang , Deidre A. Hunter , Bruce G. Elmegreen

Stellar feedback is fundamental to the modeling of galaxy evolution as it drives turbulence and outflows in galaxies. Understanding the timescales involved are critical for constraining the impact of stellar feedback on the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Laura Congreve Hunter , Liese van Zee , Kristen B. W. McQuinn , Ray Garner , Andrew E. Dolphin

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

Understanding what shapes the cold gas component of galaxies, which both provides the fuel for star formation and is strongly affected by the subsequent stellar feedback, is a crucial step towards a better understanding of galaxy evolution.…

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

Understanding the physics of turbulence is crucial for many applications, including weather, industry, and astrophysics. In the interstellar medium (ISM), supersonic turbulence plays a crucial role in controlling the gas density and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-15 Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen , Luigi Iapichino , James R. Beattie

Cluster media are dynamical, not static; observational evidence suggests they are turbulent. High-resolution simulations of the intracluster media (ICMs) and of idealized, similar media help us understand the complex physics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-24 T. W. Jones , David H. Porter , Dongsu Ryu , Jungyeon Cho

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

The interstellar medium (ISM) provides a unique laboratory for highly supersonic, driven hydrodynamics turbulence. We present a theory of such turbulence, confirm it by numerical simulations, and use the results to explain observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stanislav Boldyrev , Aake Nordlund , Paolo Padoan

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

We conduct two kinds of homogeneous isotropic turbulence simulations relevant for the intracluster medium (ICM): (i) pure turbulence runs without radiative cooling; (ii) turbulent heating$+$radiative cooling runs with global thermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Prateek Sharma

Magnetic turbulence is classified as weak or strong based on the relative amplitude of the magnetic field fluctuations compared to the mean field. These two classifications have different energy transport properties. This study analyzes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-13 Evangelia Ntormousi , Loukas Vlahos , Anna Konstantinou , Heinz Isliker

The gas motions in the intracluster medium (ICM) are governed by stratified turbulence. Stratified turbulence is fundamentally different from Kolmogorov (isotropic, homogeneous) turbulence; kinetic energy not only cascades from large to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-26 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Christoph Federrath , Prateek Sharma