Examining Turbulence in Galactic Molecular Clouds. I. A Statistical Analysis of Velocity Structures

Examining Turbulence in Galactic Molecular Clouds. I. A Statistical Analysis of Velocity Structures

We present a systematic analysis of the velocity structure functions (VSFs) of 167 molecular clouds with angular sizes greater than ~176 arcmin ^2 in three sectors of the Galactic midplane. We calculated the first-to-third-order VSFs and found that 60% of the VSFs exhibit power-law distributions. Th...

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Main Authors: Yuehui Ma, Miaomiao Zhang, Hongchi Wang, Min Fang, Zhenyi Yue, Xuepeng Chen, Ji Yang, Fujun Du, Yang Su, Suziye He, Haoran Feng, Yan Sun, Chong Li, Qing-Zeng Yan, Zhiwei Chen, Shaobo Zhang, Xin Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects:
Star formation
Interstellar medium
Interstellar clouds
Surveys
Molecular clouds
Astrophysical fluid dynamics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9b0e

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https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9b0e

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