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Energy ratios in 20 pc on-a-side cubical bins in our CHEM_HD (red) and CHEM_MHD (blue) simulations at R < 500 pc and t = 186 Myr. Blue is the ratio Ek/EB between turbulent kinetic energy (Eq. (26)) and magnetic energy (Eq. (27)). Red is the ratio Eth/EB between thermal energy Eth (Eq. (28)) and magnetic energy. On the x axis is the average density within the respective bin. The solid lines represent the average values at the given density. The average of the turbulent kinetic energy and thermal energy is also shown as the grey dashed line. At high densities (〈nbin > 1 cm−3), the kinetic energy is a few times the magnetic energy (Ek/EB ~ 2–5), while the thermal energy is negligible compared to the magnetic energy. At low densities ((〈n〉bin < 1 cm−3) the situation is inverted, with the thermal energy surpassing the magnetic energy and the turbulent kinetic energy becoming negligible at very low densities.

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