{"paper":{"title":"The Effects of Radiative Transfer on the PDFs of Molecular MHD Turbulence","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"A. Lazarian, Blakesley Burkhart, J. Stutzki, V. Ossenkopf","submitted_at":"2013-04-10T20:01:45Z","abstract_excerpt":"We study the effects of radiative transfer on the Probability Distribution Functions (PDFs) of simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the widely studied $^{13}$CO 2-1 transition. We find that the integrated intensity maps generally follow a log-normal distribution, with the cases that have $\\tau \\approx 1$ best matching the PDF of the column density. We fit a 2D variance-sonic Mach number relationship to our logarithmic PDFs of the form $\\sigma_{ln(\\Sigma/\\Sigma_0)}^2=A\\times ln(1+b^2{\\cal M}_s^2)$ and find that, for parameter $b=1/3$, parameter $A$ depends on the radiative transfer "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1304.3131","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}