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星际Turbulence、云的形成和压力平衡

Interstellar Turbulence, Cloud Formation and Pressure Balance

Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

摘要:

我们讨论了HD和MHD可压缩湍流作为云的形成和云的结构机制在ISM。大尺度湍流ISM数值模式的结果表明,介质的类相现象、云间介质的密度和磁场强度的典型值以及Larson的速度弥散-尺度关系都可以理解为星际湍流的结果。然而,密度-尺寸关系似乎只适用于密度很大的模拟云,存在大量的小的低密度云,另一方面,它们是最难观测的。然后,我们讨论了几个测试和影响的星际云的一个完全动态的图片。结果表明,云是短暂的,不断形成,扭曲和混乱的湍流速度场,与这些波动的一小部分经历引力坍缩。模拟的谱线剖面和云寿命估计值与观测数据一致。在这种情况下,我们认为这是不太可能的,准流体静力学结构在任何规模上可以形成,云和云间介质之间的近压力平衡是一个偶然的结果,由湍流驱动的密度场,并在适当的冷却的存在下,而不是一个驱动或限制机制。

英文摘要:

We discuss HD and MHD compressible turbulence as a cloud-forming and cloud-structuring mechanism in the ISM. Results from a numerical model of the turbulent ISM at large scales suggest that the phase-like appearance of the medium, the typical values of the densities and magnetic field strengths in the intercloud medium, as well as Larson's velocity dispersion-size scaling relation in clouds may be understood as consequences of the interstellar turbulence. However, the density-size relation appears to only hold for the densest simulated clouds, there existing a large population of small, low-density clouds, which, on the other hand, are hardest to observe. We then discuss several tests and implications of a fully dynamical picture of interstellar clouds. The results imply that clouds are transient, constantly being formed, distorted and disrupted by the turbulent velocity field, with a fraction of these fluctuations undergoing gravitational collapse. Simulated line profiles and estimated cloud lifetimes are consistent with observational data. In this scenario, we suggest it is quite unlikely that quasi-hydrostatic structures on any scale can form, and that the near pressure balance between clouds and the intercloud medium is an incidental consequence of the density field driven by the turbulence and in the presence of appropriate cooling, rather than a driving or confining mechanism.

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