Morphology statistics

The morphology statistic color plots are shown in Fig. ???. Although the Genus statistic produces a wide range of distances, we find that it fails to display any clear trends, given its color-plot’s shape. Both Dendrogram statistics show clear sensitivities to stellar mass-loss rate. The histogram statistic yields the largest distances for strong wind and purely turbulent pairings, followed by strong wind and weak wind pairings. The behavior is similar to that of many other statistics, but the histogram statistic’s trend continues down onto weak wind model comparisons, indicating a very clear sensitivity towards wind activity.

The number of features statistic is also sensitive to winds, but it shows different correlations between strong wind model pairings, opposite of the histogram statistic’s. By a significant amount, the largest distances occur for strong wind and weak wind pairings, as opposed to those of strong wind and purely turbulent models. The behavior does not occur in weaker wind model comparisons, as pairings between these and purely turbulent ones are larger than pairings between weaker wind models.

Although the histogram statistic produces cleaner trends, we find both Dendrogram statistics to effectively highlight feedback signatures. They are most sensitive to changes in winds, meaning their statistical outputs produce distinct signatures corresponding to feedback.