Supersonic turbulence and structure of interstellar molecular clouds

Preprint

25 March 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0203452

Abstract

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 properties of interstellar molecular clouds, the regions where stars are born.

Keywords

INTERSTELLAR MOLECULAR CLOUDS
SUPERSONIC TURBULENCE
NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS
MOLECULAR CLOUDS
TURBULENCE
STARS

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Version 1, 2002-03-25, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 89 (3), 031102.

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