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 Letters847L14.
Provider: AAS Journals
Caption: Figure 4.
Temporal evolution of (a) electron and (b) ion total heating rates for the four kinetic Alfvén turbulence simulations described in the text. Blue lines: εo = 0.05; green lines: εo = 0.10; yellow lines, εo = 0.25; red lines: εo = 0.50.