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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 5.

Two summaries of the dimensionless time rates of change of the ion total temperature (red squares) and the electron total temperature (blue dots) as functions of the initial magnetic fluctuation energy density of the four kinetic Alfvén turbulence simulations. (a) The maximum values of Qiand Qe. The blue dashed line represents Qe = 0.001εo (Equation (3) of Hughes et al. 2017), the approximate scaling for maximum electron heating due to whistler turbulence at βe = 0.50. (b) The rates of change of the ion and electron total temperatures averaged over the simulation times between ωpet = 25.6 and 512.0.

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