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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 8.

Initially Maxwellian distribution of test particles with thermal velocity v th = c s is simulated for t = 20 L/ c s (many eddy turnover times) in our fiducial simulation (Table 1), with two different values of the imposed scattering rate ν. The final distribution functions are slightly non-Maxwellian but do not develop a significantly non-thermal tail. f( v) shown here is the one-dimensional distribution function, normalized such that the density is n 0 = ∫ dvf( v).

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