Molecular Cloud Structure Analysis by Direct Simulation

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Aug 1999

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The Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium, Proceedings of the 3rd Cologne-Zermatt Symposium, held in Zermatt, Septemb

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The analysis of molecular cloud maps has to include the study of fractal parameters and scalings. We found that various cloud maps can be represented by a fractional Brownian motion (fBm) fractal. To study the underlying physical structure we have simulated the three-dimensional cloud structure either by a fractal algorithm or by direct MHD simulations. For a comparison to the observations we computed the radiative transfer in these clouds and observational artefacts. With the fractal approach we obtain reasonable fits to the characteristic quantities of the observed maps. The comparison with the MHD simulations - although not yet providing a detailed fit - helped to constain essential parameters of the MHD physics. More accurate results have to come from new hign S/N observations.

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