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Small-scale structure and motions in the interstellar gas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

John M. Dickey*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota

Abstract

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The interstellar medium shows turbulence whose velocity and density spectra are surprisingly like a Kolmogoroff law, in spite of the fact that the turbulence is generated mainly by microscopic explosions, rather than a cascade of energy from larger to smaller scales.

Type
PART II: COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND KINEMATICS
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985