Cloud Statistics in Numerical Simulations of the ISM

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We present preliminary results on the energy budgets of clouds in two-dimensional numerical simulations of the interstellar medium. Using an automated cloud-identification algorithm, we calculate the gravitational, internal, kinetic and magnetic energies of the clouds. We find that, within a dispersion of roughly one order of magnitude, the gravitational energy in the clouds is balanced by the remaining energies. Furthermore, within the same dispersion, there appears to be equipartition between the kinetic and magnetic energies.
Gzipped, tarred Latex file (4 pages), 6 Postscript figures and one style file. Uses AAS macros. Gzipped Postscript file also available at ftp://kepler.astroscu.unam.mx/incoming/enro/papers/cloudstat.ps.gz

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