Turbulence in the Molecular Interstellar Medium

Details Turbulence in the Molecular Interstellar Medium Turbulence in the Molecular Interstellar Medium

2006-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611492v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 postscript figures, invited talk in IAU Symposium 237, "Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent ISM", 14-18 August,

Scientific paper

10.1017/S1743921307001159

The observational record of turbulence within the molecular gas phase of the interstellar medium is summarized. We briefly review the analysis methods used to recover the velocity structure function from spectroscopic imaging and the application of these tools on sets of cloud data. These studies identify a near-invariant velocity structure function that is independent of local the environment and star formation activity. Such universality accounts for the cloud-to-cloud scaling law between the global line-width and size of molecular clouds found by Larson (1981) and constrains the degree to which supersonic turbulence can regulate star formation. In addition, the evidence for large scale driving sources necessary to sustain supersonic flows is summarized.

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