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Caption: Figure 8.
Power spectra of the velocity
v
2
k
(thick solid), magnetic field
B
2
k
/4π (dashed), and
(dotted). The top panel shows the spectra in the region
x ∈ [0.75, 1.25] and
y ∈ [1.3, 1.8] of Model 1 at
t = 1425 yr, and the bottom panel shows those in the region
x ∈ [1.3, 1.8] and
y ∈ [0.75, 1.25] of Model 2 at
t = 1508 yr. The thin solid lines show Kolmogorov spectra
v
2
k
∝
k
−(5/3)−(
D−1)
at
D = 2. The ratio of
B
2
k
/4π to
indicates the ratio of the magnetic to kinetic energies at scale
k.
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