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Caption: Figure 7.
Computed values of (a) the ratio of total-to-thermal velocity dispersion for the diffuse gas α ≡ 1 +
v
2
z, diff/
v
th, diff
2, (b) the square of mass-weighted thermal to warm medium thermal speed
, and (c) the product
f
wf
diff (for
the warm gas mass fraction in the diffuse gas and
f
diff the diffuse mass fraction), as functions of Σ
SFR for all models except Series R. The points and error bars give the mean and standard deviations over
t/
t
orb = 2–3. Over more than two orders of magnitude in Σ
SFR, the balance between energy input (heating, turbulent driving) and energy output (cooling, turbulent dissipation) maintains
nearly constant α =
P
tot/
P
th and both warm and cold gas phases.
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