Results from the PROMISE survey: Do molecular cloud density distributions REALLY care about turbulence? Jouni Kainulainen Chalmers, Gothenburg, SE
I present highlights from the PROMISE galactic plane survey. PROMISE is a dust-based survey that provides high-resolution (FWHM=2"), high-sensitivity column density maps for thousands of molecular clouds in the Galactic plane, covering a statistically interesting volume of the Milky Way. I will showcase the first survey data products and present the first results emerging from the data. Specifically, I address the question of the relationship between the density structure and turbulence energy in molecular clouds; the relationship is a fundamental prediction of the turbulence-regulated interstellar medium and the PROMISE data open a door to address it at Galactic scales.
Caption: Part of the PROMISE Galactic plane survey, displaying a section of the Galactic plane and zooms to individual clouds.
Collaborators: M. Zhang, PMO, CN	Suggested Session: Turbulence & Cloud Dynamics