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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

Caption: Figure 3.

Temporal evolution of (a) the electron and (b) the ion temperatures for the kinetic Alfvén turbulence simulation with εo = 0.50. The red lines are ﹩{T}_{\parallel {\rm{j}}}({\text{}}t)/{T}_{\parallel {\rm{j}}}(t=0)﹩, the green lines are ﹩{T}_{\perp {\rm{j}}}({\text{}}t)/{T}_{\perp {\rm{j}}}(t=0)﹩, the yellow lines are Tj(t)/Tj(t = 0), and the blue lines represent ﹩{T}_{\perp {\rm{j}}}/{T}_{\parallel {\rm{j}}}﹩. The dimensionless times are plotted here both as ωpet and t/Tnl where the nonlinear time Tnlis defined as cited in, for example, Wu et al. (2013), Wan et al. (2015), Parashar et al. (2015a), and Matthaeus et al. (2016).

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