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The catalogue for astrophysical turbulence simulations (CATS)

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abc484
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics
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FormatText, Article
Physical description15 p.
Subjectastronomy databases (83); magnetohydrodynamics (1964); interstellar medium (847); interstellar dynamics (839)
Abstract
Turbulence is a key process in many fields of astrophysics. Advances in numerical simulations of fluids over the last several decades have revolutionized our understanding of turbulence and related processes such as star formation and cosmic ray propagation. However, data from numerical simulations of astrophysical turbulence are often not made public. We introduce a new simulation-oriented database for the astronomical community: the Catalogue for Astrophysical Turbulence Simulations (CATS), located at www.mhdturbulence.com. CATS includes magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent box simulation data products generated by the public codes athena++, arepo, enzo, and flash. CATS also includes several synthetic observational data sets, such as turbulent HI data cubes. We also include measured power spectra and three-point correlation functions from some of these data. We discuss the importance of open-source statistical and visualization tools for the analysis of turbulence simulations such as those found in CATS.
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PublisherAmerican Astronomical Society
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  • The Astrophysical Journal 905, no. 1, 14 (8 December 2020).
LanguageEnglish
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