Improved methods for turbulence in astrophysics
J. Spicker, J. V. Feitzinger;
AaA, 1988, 191, 186

ABSTRACT:Methods for studying turbulence, hitherto not used in astrophysics, are presented, supplementing the exposition published by Dickman and Kleiner (1985). New statistical results are incorporated, and new sources of error and bias of the estimates of autocorrelation (ACF) and structure (STR) functions are discussed. Different possibilities for the extraction of stationary components for existing data are examined, and a new aproach to data filtering is given, with the aim of reaching optimal compromises between directional effects and filter sizes. In addition, deviations from the idealized conditions of the Kolmogorov theory of turbulence are summarized.
KEYWORDS: astrophysics, error analysis, kolmogoroff theory, magellanic clouds, statistical analysis, turbulence, asymptotic methods, autocorrelation, digital filters, fourier transformation
PERSOKEY:turbulence, ,
CODE: spicker88a