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Fig. 1

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Characteristic amplitude () of δρ/ρ (red) and v/cs (blue) after reaching a statistical steady state (~ 2 tturb) with the same level of continuous stirring. From top left: models with weak (M ~ 0.25), mild (M ~ 0.5), and strong (M ~ 0.75) turbulence; the last model (bottom right) has half the reference injection scale (~600/2 kpc) using M ~ 0.25. From dark to bright line color, the level of conduction increases by a factor of 10: f = 0 (hydro), 10-3, 10-2, 10-1, 1. The evolution is overall self-similar by varying the strength of turbulence or the injection scale. Density perturbations are an effective tracer of the velocity field, especially on large scales, with normalization Av1D ≈ 1.3 Aρ (at L ~ 600 kpc). On smaller scales, δρ/ρ displays a cascade shallower than the Kolmogorov slope followed by velocities. Remarkably, conduction strongly damps density perturbations but leaves the velocity cascade unaltered, thus inverting the Av(k) /Aρ(k) ratio (Fig. 2).

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