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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., Nordlund, Å. (2004). Scaling Relations of Supersonic Turbulence in Molecular Clouds. In: de Castro, A.I.G., Heyer, M., Vázquez-Semadeni, E., Rebolo, R., Tagger, M., Pudritz, R.E. (eds) Magnetic Fields and Star Formation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0491-5_6
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