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\subsubsection{Velocity Channel Analysis and Velocity Coordinate Spectrum} \label{VCA}  %SSRO Note power spectra - lower case; to cite text add label as \label{VCA} and then add (e.g., \ref{VCA}) in the text  Velocity Channel Analysis (VCA) and Velocity Coordinate Spectrum (VCS) are techniques that isolate how fluctuations in velocity contribute to differences between spectral cubes (e.g., Lararian \& Pogosyan 2000, Heyer \& Brunt 2002, Lazarian \& Pogosyan 2004}. 2004).  VCA produces a 1D power spectrum as a function of spatial frequency, while VCS yields a 1D power spectrum as a function of velocity-channel frequency (frequency equivalent of velocity). For outputs W1T2t0.2 and T2t0, we first compute the three-dimensional power spectrum. To obtain the VCA, we calculate a one-dimensional power spectrum by integrating the 3D power spectrum over the velocity channels and then radially averaging over the two-dimensional spatial frequencies. A portion (look back when you get a chance to see what this portion physically is) of the resultant 1D power spectrum is then fit to a power law. For VCS, we reduce each 3D power spectrum to one dimension by averaging over the spatial frequencies. This yields two distinct power laws, which we fit individually using the segmented linear model described in K15. The fit at larger scales describes bulk gas velocity-dominated motion; the fit at smaller scales describes gas density-dominated motions (Chepurnov and Lazarian 2009). \citep{kowal07} find that the density-dominated regime is sensitive to the magnetic field strength, where stronger fields correspond to steeper slopes. %To quantity the VCS, we fit the 1D power spectrum to the segmented linear model used Koch et al. (2015).