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速度质心的统计

Statistics of Centroids of Velocity

A. Esquivel, A. Lazarian

摘要:

我们回顾了利用速度质心统计从观测中恢复星际湍流信息。很长一段时间以来,速度质心一直被用来获取有关星际介质中湍流速度场标度特性的信息。我们表明,虽然他们是有用的研究亚音速湍流,他们不跟踪统计的速度在超音速湍流,因为它们是高度的密度波动的影响。我们还表明,亚Alfvénic湍流(超音速和亚音速)的两点统计(例如关联函数或功率谱)是各向异性的。这种各向异性可以用来确定平均磁场在天空平面上的投影方向。

英文摘要:

We review the use of velocity centroids statistics to recover information of interstellar turbulence from observations. Velocity centroids have been used for a long time now to retrieve information about the scaling properties of the turbulent velocity field in the interstellar medium. We show that, while they are useful to study subsonic turbulence, they do not trace the statistics of velocity in supersonic turbulence, because they are highly influenced by fluctuations of density. We show also that for sub-Alfvénic turbulence (both supersonic and subsonic) two-point statistics (e.g. correlation functions or power-spectra) are anisotropic. This anisotropy can be used to determine the direction of the mean magnetic field projected in the plane of the sky.

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