Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2010
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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 720, Issue 1, pp. 742-756 (2010).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
19
Ism: Structure, Magnetohydrodynamics: Mhd, Turbulence
Scientific paper
We study compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, which holds the key to many astrophysical processes, including star formation and cosmic-ray propagation. To account for the variations of the magnetic field in the strongly turbulent fluid, we use wavelet decomposition of the turbulent velocity field into Alfvén, slow, and fast modes, which presents an extension of the Cho & Lazarian decomposition approach based on Fourier transforms. The wavelets allow us to follow the variations of the local direction of the magnetic field and therefore improve the quality of the decomposition compared to the Fourier transforms, which are done in the mean field reference frame. For each resulting component, we calculate the spectra and two-point statistics such as longitudinal and transverse structure functions as well as higher order intermittency statistics. In addition, we perform a Helmholtz- Hodge decomposition of the velocity field into incompressible and compressible parts and analyze these components. We find that the turbulence intermittency is different for different components, and we show that the intermittency statistics depend on whether the phenomenon was studied in the global reference frame related to the mean magnetic field or in the frame defined by the local magnetic field. The dependencies of the measures we obtained are different for different components of the velocity; for instance, we show that while the Alfvén mode intermittency changes marginally with the Mach number, the intermittency of the fast mode is substantially affected by the change.
Kowal Grzegorz
Lazarian Alex
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