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We discuss a model for driven supersonic, super-Alfvénic MHD turbulence that is believed to govern the structure of molecular clouds. Such turbulence is highly intermittent; we describe its statistical properties by obtaining scaling of velocity-difference structure functions. This scaling was analytically predicted in Boldyrev (2002), confirmed in numerical simulations by Boldyrev et al. (2002), and discovered in observations by Padoan et al. (2003).
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Boldyrev, S., Padoan, P., Jimenez, R. et al. Scaling Relations of Supersonic Turbulence in Molecular Clouds. Astrophysics and Space Science 292, 61–68 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ASTR.0000045001.96650.48
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