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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 4.

Test particle velocity diffusion coefficients for the fiducial simulation at high scattering rates (solid curves), corresponding to the non-resonant regime discussed in Section 2.2. Scatterers are stationary in the fluid frame. For high velocities, the numerical results are reasonably well approximated by Equation (9) (dashed curve), which describes velocity diffusion by non-resonant interactions with turbulent density fluctuations. The rapid increase in the diffusion coefficient with velocity at intermediate velocities ~few  c s can produce a non-thermal tail in the distribution function (see Figure 9).

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