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Kinetic Alfvén Turbulence: Electron and Ion Heating by Particle-in-cell Simulations

  • Authors: R. Scott Hughes, S. Peter Gary, Joseph Wang, and Tulasi N. Parashar

2017 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 847 L14.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Temporal evolution of field and plasma component energies for the kinetic Alfvén turbulence simulation with initial condition εo = 0.50. The black dashed line represents Ktotal, the magenta dashed line represents KE + KB, the green dashed line represents We + Wi, the dark blue solid line represents Wi, the yellow solid line represents We, the light blue solid line represents KB, and the red solid line represents KE. The dimensionless times are plotted here both as ωpet and t/Tnl where the nonlinear time Tnlis defined in, for example, Wu et al. (2013), Wan et al. (2015), Parashar et al. (2015a), and Matthaeus et al. (2016).

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