Line of sight velocity profiles in turbulent molecular clouds
This is a snapshot from a three dimensional simulation of about 5,700 Solar
masses of gas in a 10 pc periodic box. The gas began with fully developed turbulence at Mach 8; this is after
1.27 Myr of self-gravitating evolution.
Click around the image to explore the line-of-sight velocity structure.
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total column density (log scale)
103 < n cm-3 < 104.5 (linear scale; approximates C18O)