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模拟和观测中星际turbulence统计的比较:螺线管与压缩turbulence强迫

Comparing the statistics of interstellar turbulence in simulations and observations: Solenoidal versus compressive turbulence forcing

C. Federrath, J. Roman-Duval, R. Klessen, W. Schmidt, M. -M. Mac Low

摘要:

我们研究了两个极限情况下的湍流强迫数值实验:螺线管(发散自由)强迫,和压缩(卷曲自由)强迫,并比较我们的结果在文献中报道的意见。我们在网格上求解流体动力学方程,网格单元多达1024^3个,分别是纯螺线管强迫和纯压缩强迫。还分析了11个低分辨率模式与两种强迫的混合物。我们发现速度色散-大小的关系与观测和独立的数值模拟一致,无论强迫的类型。然而,在相同RMS马赫数下,压缩强迫产生的湍流压缩比螺线管强迫更强,导致体积和柱密度概率分布(PDF)的标准偏差大三倍。我们的结论是,在任何理论使用PDF来预测恒星形成的性质时,都必须考虑到密度PDF对强迫类型的强烈依赖性。我们提供了一个定量描述这种依赖性。我们发现,不同的观测区域显示出不同的混合物的压缩和螺线管强迫的证据,更多的压缩强迫主要发生在后掠壳。

英文摘要:

We study two limiting cases of turbulence forcing in numerical experiments: solenoidal (divergence-free) forcing, and compressive (curl-free) forcing, and compare our results to observations reported in the literature. We solve the equations of hydrodynamics on grids with up to 1024^3 cells for purely solenoidal and purely compressive forcing. Eleven lower-resolution models with mixtures of both forcings are also analysed. We find velocity dispersion--size relations consistent with observations and independent numerical simulations, irrespective of the type of forcing. However, compressive forcing yields stronger turbulent compression at the same RMS Mach number than solenoidal forcing, resulting in a three times larger standard deviation of volumetric and column density probability distributions (PDFs). We conclude that the strong dependence of the density PDF on the type of forcing must be taken into account in any theory using the PDF to predict properties of star formation. We supply a quantitative description of this dependence. We find that different observed regions show evidence of different mixtures of compressive and solenoidal forcing, with more compressive forcing occurring primarily in swept-up shells.

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