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Statistical tools of interstellar turbulence: connecting observations with theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2011

B. Burkhart  and
A. Lazarian
B. Burkhart
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 475 N. Charter St., WI 53711, USA email: burkhart@astro.wisc.edul
A. Lazarian
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 475 N. Charter St., WI 53711, USA email: burkhart@astro.wisc.edul
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Abstract

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MHD Turbulence is a critical component of the current paradigms of star formation, particle transport, magnetic reconnection and evolution of the ISM, to name just a few. Progress on this difficult subject is made via numerical simulations and observational studies, however in order to connect these two, statistical methods are required. This calls for new statistical tools to be developed in order to study turbulence in the interstellar medium. Here we briefly review some of the recently developed statistics that focus on characterizing gas compressibility and magnetization and their uses to interstellar studies.

Keywords

turbulencemethods:statistical numericalISM: general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S274: Advances in Plasma Astrophysics , September 2010 , pp. 365 - 368
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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