The Catalogue for Astrophysical Turbulence Simulations (CATS)

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 905; no. 1; pp. 14 - 28
• Main Authors: Burkhart, B., Appel, S. M., Bialy, S., Cho, J., Christensen, A. J., Collins, D., Federrath, C., Fielding, D. B., Finkbeiner, D., Hill, A. S., Ibáñez-Mejía, J. C., Krumholz, M. R., Lazarian, A., Li, M., Mocz, P., Mac Low, M.-M., Naiman, J., Portillo, S. K. N., Shane, B., Slepian, Z., Yuan, Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia The American Astronomical Society 01-12-2020; IOP Publishing; Institute of Physics (IOP)
• Subjects: ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy databases; Astrophysics; Celestial bodies; Computational fluid dynamics; Correlation analysis; Cosmic ray propagation; Cosmic rays; Cubes; Fluid flow; Interstellar dynamics; Interstellar medium; Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence; Magnetohydrodynamics; Numerical simulations; Power spectra; Simulation; Source code; Star & galaxy formation; Star formation; Statistical analysis; Turbulence
• ISSN: 0004-637X; 1538-4357; 1538-4357
• DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc484

Abstract
Turbulence is a key process in many fields of astrophysics. Advances in numerical simulations of fluids over the last several decades have revolutionized our understanding of turbulence and related processes such as star formation and cosmic ray propagation. However, data from numerical simulations of astrophysical turbulence are often not made public. We introduce a new simulation-oriented database for the astronomical community: the Catalogue for Astrophysical Turbulence Simulations (CATS), located at 
www.mhdturbulence.com
. CATS includes magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent box simulation data products generated by the public codes
athena++
,
arepo
,
enzo,
and
flash
. CATS also includes several synthetic observational data sets, such as turbulent HI data cubes. We also include measured power spectra and three-point correlation functions from some of these data. We discuss the importance of open-source statistical and visualization tools for the analysis of turbulence simulations such as those found in CATS.