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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 3.

Test particle velocity diffusion coefficients for low scattering rates for the fiducial simulation (see Table 1). Scatterers are stationary in the fluid frame. The solid cyan curve is a fit to a functional form given by a sum of Fermi Type-B and resonance-broadened transit-time damping in which particles interact with turbulent fluctuations in magnetic field strength. This provides a reasonable description at low scattering rates and/or high velocities. At high scattering rates (ν ~ 100 c s / L), however, the functional form of the diffusion coefficient in the test particle calculations changes significantly. This corresponds to the transition to a non-resonant regime in which particles interact primarily with turbulent density fluctuation (see Figure 4 and Section 2.2).

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