2016MNRAS.458.3489D -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 458, 3489-3505 (2016/June-1)
The effects of the variations of turbulence parameters on the observable turbulence statistics.
DING S.Y.
Abstract (from CDS):
In order to study how the statistical properties of the observational quantities of the turbulent molecular cloud models vary with different turbulence parameters, I use the artificially generated random numerical models based on Gaussian fields created by the code pyfc with different values of the 1D density Fourier spectral index βn, the turbulence driving parameter, i.e. the b parameter and the 1D Fourier velocity power spectral index βv. Then I calculate the line profiles of 13CO emission on every sight line. I derive the statistical properties of column density N, line intensity W, peak intensity Tpeak and velocity dispersion Vrms on every sight line. I discover that as βn increases, (1) the standard deviations σ_ln (N/<N> )_ and σ_ln (W/<W> )_ of the logarithmic column density ln (N/<N> ) and the logarithmic integrated intensity ln (W/<W> ) increase; (2) the number of the low Tpeak values becomes larger; (3) the probability distribution function (PDF) of Vrms inclines to left a little. As the b parameter increases, (1) the values of both σ_ln (N/<N> )_ and σ_ln (W/<W> )_ increase; (2) the numbers of both the low Tpeak values and the saturated Tpeak values become larger; (3) the PDF of Vrms inclines to left obviously. As βv increases, (1) the PDF of ln (W/<W> ) remains generally unchanged; (2) the PDF of Tpeak remains generally unchanged; (3) the PDF of Vrms inclines to left obviously. I also discuss the relationship among σ_N/<N> _, Mach number, the b parameter and βn.
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© 2016 The Author Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s):
turbulence - ISM: clouds - ISM: kinematics and dynamics - ISM: lines and bands - ISM: structure
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