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15 February 2025
 
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Magnetized Turbulence
Mordecai-Mark Mac Low ;
Date 1 Dec 2004
Subject astro-ph
AffiliationAmer. Mus. Natural Hist.
AbstractSeveral topics in the theory of magnetized turbulence are reviewed with application to star formation and the interstellar medium. The density, pressure, and temperature distribution in a turbulent interstellar medium is described in comparison to a medium dominated by thermal instability. The derivation of the empirical theory for the energy spectrum of hydrodynamic and MHD turbulence is outlined, and comparisons are given to numerical models for the magnetized case. Next discussed is how density fluctuations modify observations of velocity fluctuations in line centroids, coincidentally cancelling the effects of projection smoothing. The analytic description of velocity structure functions as a function of the dimensionality of the dissipative structures is then covered. Finally the question of whether turbulence can support against gravitational collapse is addressed. Turbulence both prevents and promotes collapse, but its net effect is to inhibit collapse, so it does not trigger star formation in any significant sense.
Source arXiv, astro-ph/0412009
Other source [GID 870953] astro-ph/0412009
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