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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 5.

Test particle velocity diffusion coefficients for ν = 10 3 c s / L for three different β, corresponding to the non-resonant regime discussed in Section 2.2. Scatterers are stationary in the fluid frame. The results are similar for low β ≲ 1 where slow modes dominate the compressional fluctuations. For β = 10 the diffusion coefficient resembles the β = 1 results at much lower scattering rates (see Figure 3). This is because the compressional energy is significantly lower in the β = 10 simulation, which decreases the efficiency of the non-resonant diffusion.

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