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The Efficiency of Second-order Fermi Acceleration by Weakly Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

  • Authors: Jacob W. Lynn, Eliot Quataert, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, and Ian J. Parrish

Lynn et al. 2013 The Astrophysical Journal 777 128.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Dispersion in velocity, measured relative to the fluid frame, as a function of time for test particles that were initially delta functions with v i sime 0.025  c s . The turbulence has properties given by Table 1. For the low-scattering run there is an initial "jump" in velocity dispersion caused by the changing local parallel fluid velocity relative to the particles, after which langδ v 2 rang( t) increases linearly, consistent with diffusion. The high-scattering run has no such jump because the particles remain tied to the local fluid frame by the rapid scattering. The dotted curve shows the fit we use to calculate diffusion coefficients in the case with the initial jump.

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