期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 707, 期 2, 页码 L153-L157出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/L153
关键词
ISM: kinematics and dynamics; stars: formation; turbulence
资金
- Academy of Finland [105623, 124620]
- National Science Foundation [AST-0607675]
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [124620, 105623, 124620, 105623] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
Is the turbulence in cluster-forming regions internally driven by stellar outflows or the consequence of a large-scale turbulent cascade? We address this question by studying the turbulent energy spectrum in NGC 1333. Using synthetic (13)CO maps computed with a snapshot of a supersonic turbulence simulation, we show that the velocity coordinate spectrum method of Lazarian & Pogosyan provides an accurate estimate of the turbulent energy spectrum. We then apply this method to the (13)CO map of NGC 1333 from the COMPLETE database. We find that the turbulent energy spectrum is a power law, E(k) proportional to k(-beta), in the range of scales 0.06 pc <= l <= 1.5 pc, with slope beta = 1.85 +/- 0.04. The estimated energy injection scale of stellar outflows in NGC 1333 is l(inj) approximate to 0.3 pc, well resolved by the observations. There is no evidence of the flattening of the energy spectrum above the scale l(inj) predicted by outflow-driven simulations and analytical models. The power spectrum of integrated intensity is also a nearly perfect power law in the range of scales 0.16 pc < l < 7.9 pc, with no feature above l(inj). We conclude that the observed turbulence in NGC 1333 does not appear to be driven primarily by stellar outflows.
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