TURBULENCE IN MOLECULAR CLOUDS

Preprint

10 January 1995

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9501032

Abstract

We generate random Gaussian turbulent velocity fields with a Kolmogorov spectrum and use these to obtain synthetic line-of-sight velocity profiles. The profiles are found to be similar to line profiles observed in molecular clouds. We suggest methods for analysing measured line profiles to test whether they might arise from Gaussian Kolmogorov turbulence.

Keywords

TURBULENT VELOCITY
GAUSSIAN TURBULENT
MOLECULAR CLOUDS
GENERATE RANDOM
VELOCITY FIELDS
RANDOM GAUSSIAN
LINE PROFILES
TURBULENCE
KOLMOGOROV

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