Interstellar turbulence

Contents......Page 8
Turbulence in the Interstellar Medium: a Retrospective Review......Page 14
Mechanism of Formation of Atmospheric Turbulence Relevant for Optical Astronomy......Page 18
Properties of Atomic Gas in Spiral Galaxies......Page 25
Turbulence in the Ionized Gas in Spiral Galaxies......Page 33
Probing Interstellar Turbulence in the Warm Ionized Medium using Emission Lines......Page 40
The Spectrum and Galactic Distribution of Microturbulence in Diffuse Ionized Gas......Page 46
Small scale structure and turbulence in the interstellar medium......Page 54
What is the Reynolds number of the Reynolds' Layer?f......Page 62
Photoionized Gas in the Galactic Halo......Page 67
Turbulent Heating of the Diffuse Ionized Gas......Page 78
Cosmic Rays in Interstellar Turbulence......Page 83
Turbulence in Line-Driven Stellar Winds......Page 92
An introduction to compressible MHD turbulence......Page 100
Turbulence in Atomic Hydrogen......Page 108
Supershells in Spiral Galaxies......Page 117
The Size Distribution of Superbubbles in the Interstellar Medium......Page 125
Large-Scale Motions in the ISM of Elliptical and Spiral Galaxies......Page 133
Vortical motions driven by supernova explosions......Page 140
The intermittent dissipation of turbulence: is it observed in the interstellar medium?......Page 145
Supersonic Turbulence in Giant Extragalactic HII Regions......Page 161
Turbulence in HII regions: New results......Page 167
Hypersonic Turbulence of H2O Masers......Page 172
Water Masers Tracing Alfvenic Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in W51M and W49N......Page 177
Turbulence in the Ursa Major cirrus cloud......Page 182
The collision of HVC's with a magnetized gaseous disk......Page 187
The Initial Stellar Mass Function as a Statistical Sample of Turbulent Cloud Structure......Page 192
The structure of molecular clouds: are they fractal?......Page 203
Diagnosing Properties of Turbulent Flows from Spectral Line Observations of the Molecular Interstellar Medium......Page 211
Centroid velocity increments as a probe of the turbulent velocity field in interstellar molecular clouds......Page 216
High-Resolution C18O Mapping Observations\rof Heiles' Cloud 2\r- Statistical Properties of the Line Width......Page 221
Observations of Magnetic Fields in Dense Interstellar Clouds: Implications for MHD Turbulence and Cloud Evolution......Page 226
The Density PDFs of Supersonic Random Flows......Page 231
Turbulence as an Organizing Agent in the ISM......Page 236
Turbulence and magnetic reconnection in the interstellar medium......Page 245
The Evolution of Self-Gravitating, Magnetized, Turbulent Clouds: Numerical Experiments......Page 253
Super-Alfvenic Turbulent Fragmentation in Molecular Clouds......Page 261
Decay Timescales of MHD Turbulence in Molecular Clouds......Page 269
Numerical Magnetohydrodynamic Studies of Turbulence and Star Formation......Page 274
Direct Numerical Simulations of Compressible Magnetohydrodynamical Turbulence......Page 280
Fragmentation in Molecular Clouds: The Formation of a Stellar Cluster......Page 285
Accretion Disk Turbulence......Page 290
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS......Page 298