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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 680, 期 1, 页码 420-427出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/587510
关键词
ISM : clouds; ISM : individual (Taurus Molecular Cloud); ISM : kinematics and dynamics; ISM : magnetic fields; methods : data analysis; MHD
Velocity anisotropy induced by MHD turbulence is investigated using computational simulations and molecular line observations of the Taurus molecular cloud. A new analysis method is presented to evaluate the degree and angle of velocity anisotropy using spectroscopic imaging data of interstellar clouds. The efficacy of this method is demonstrated on model observations derived from three-dimensional velocity and density fields from the set of numerical MHD simulations that span a range of magnetic field strengths. The analysis is applied to (CO)-C-12 J = 1-0 imaging of a subfield within the Taurus molecular cloud. Velocity anisotropy is identified that is aligned within similar to 10 degrees of the mean local magnetic field direction derived from optical polarization measurements. Estimated values of the field strength based on velocity anisotropy are consistent with results from other methods. When combined with new column density measurements for Taurus, our magnetic field strength estimate indicates that the envelope of the cloud is magnetically subcritical. These observations favor strong MHD turbulence within the low-density, subcritical, molecular gas substrate of the Taurus cloud.
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