Supersonic Turbulence and Structure of Interstellar Molecular Clouds
- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 89 (3) , 031102
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.89.031102
Abstract
The interstellar medium provides a unique laboratory for highly supersonic, driven hydrodynamic turbulence. We propose a theory of such turbulence, test it by numerical simulations, and use the results to explain observational scaling properties of interstellar molecular clouds, the regions where stars are born.Keywords
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