Effects of the magnetic field direction on the Tsallis statistic
arXiv:1906.04821 · doi:10.1093/mnras/sty006
Abstract
We extend the use of the Tsallis statistic to measure the differences in gas dynamics relative to the mean magnetic field present from natural eddy-type motions existing in magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence. The variation in gas dynamics was estimated using the Tsallis parameters on the incremental probability distribution function of the observables (intensity and velocity centroid) obtained from compressible MHD simulations. We find that the Tsallis statistic is susceptible to the anisotropy produce by the magnetic field, even when anisotropy is percent the Tsallis statistic can be use to determine MHD parameters such as the Sonic Mach number. We quantize the goodness of the Tsallis parameters using the coefficient of determination to measure the differences in the gas dynamics. These parameters also determine the level of magnetization and compressibility of the medium. To further simulate realistic spectroscopic observational data we introduced smoothing, noise, and cloud boundaries to the MHD simulations.
arXiv comment7 pages, 6 figures, MNRAS publish Bibcode: 2018MNRAS.475.3324G
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