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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 407, 期 2, 页码 1223-1230出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16975.x
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instabilities; turbulence; ISM: general; ISM: kinematics and dynamics; ISM: structure; galaxies: ISM
We explore the gravitational instability of clumpy and turbulent gas discs, taking into account the Larson-type scaling laws observed in giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and H i, as well as more general scaling relations. This degree of freedom is of special interest in view of the coming high-z interstellar medium surveys and is thus potentially important for understanding the dynamical effects of turbulence at all epochs of galaxy evolution. Our analysis shows that turbulence has a deep impact on the gravitational instability of the disc. It excites a rich variety of stability regimes, several of which have no classical counterpart. Among other diagnostics, we provide two useful tools for observers and simulators: (1) the stability map of turbulence, which illustrates our stability scenario and relates it to the phenomenology of interstellar turbulence: GMC/H i observations, simulations and models; (2) a Toomre-like stability criterion, Q >=(Q) over bar which applies to a large class of clumpy/turbulent discs. We make specific predictions about GMC and cold-H i turbulence and point out the implications of our analysis for high-z galaxy surveys.
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