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多相星际介质中超声速turbulence的性质和密度分布函数

Nature of supersonic turbulence and density distribution function in the multiphase interstellar medium

Masato I. N. Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Kengo Tomida, Kazunari Iwasaki, Hiroki Nakatsugawa

摘要:

星际介质中的超音速流动被认为是分子云形成和演化的关键驱动力。在分子云的性质中,螺旋湍流和压缩湍流模式之间的比率在决定恒星形成效率方面起着重要作用。我们使用数值模拟的超音速收敛流的温暖的中性介质(WNM)解决的热不稳定性计算的早期阶段的分子云的形成,并调查的湍流结构和密度概率分布函数(密度PDF)的多相ISM。我们发现,螺线管和压缩模式的功率谱相似的Kolmogorov谱。螺线管(压缩)模态占总湍流功率的80%以上(<20%)。当我们同时考虑冷中性介质(CNM)和热不稳定中性介质(UNM)时,密度PDF服从对数正态分布,其宽度σ_s可用等温湍流的已知关系式σ_s = ln很好地解释(1 + b^2 * M^2)(其中b是表示湍流模式比的参数,M是湍流马赫数)。然而,单独的CNM组分(T <= 50 K)的密度PDF表现出约2倍的更窄的sigma_s。这些结果表明,基于CNM密度PDF的b的观测估计需要每个CNM团块内的内部湍流,而不是团块间的相对速度,后者由WNM/UNM湍流提供动力。

英文摘要:

Supersonic flows in the interstellar medium (ISM) are believed to be a key driver of the molecular cloud formation and evolution. Among molecular clouds' properties, the ratio between the solenoidal and compressive modes of turbulence plays important roles in determining the star formation efficiency. We use numerical simulations of supersonic converging flows of the warm neutral medium (WNM) resolving the thermal instability to calculate the early phase of molecular cloud formation, and investigate the turbulence structure and the density probability distribution function (density PDF) of the multiphase ISM. We find that both the solenoidal and compressive modes have their power spectrum similar to the Kolmogorov spectrum. The solenoidal (compressive) modes account for >~80% (<~20%) of the total turbulence power. When we consider both the cold neutral medium (CNM) and the thermally unstable neutral medium (UNM) up to T <~ 400 K, the density PDF follows the log-normal distribution whose width sigma_s is well explained by the known relation from the isothermal turbulence as sigma_s = ln(1 + b^2 * M^2) (where b is the parameter representing the turbulence mode ratio and M is the turbulent Mach number). The density PDF of the CNM component alone (T <= 50 K), however, exhibits a narrower sigma_s by a factor of ~ 2. These results suggest that observational estimations of b based on the CNM density PDF requires the internal turbulence within each CNM clump but not the inter-clump relative velocity, the latter of which is instead powered by the WNM/UNM turbulence.

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