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Magnetic Field-line Curvature and Its Role in Particle Acceleration by Magnetically Dominated Turbulence

  • Authors: Samuel T. Sebastian, Luca Comisso

Samuel T. Sebastian and Luca Comisso 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 994 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Two-dimensional slices in the xy plane at fixed z from the reference simulation (δB0/B0 = 1) at t = 2 lc/c, showing the normalized magnetic field strength B/Brms and the normalized magnetic field-line curvature magnitude κ/κrms. The bottom panel shows the joint distribution of B/Brms and κ (measured in units of the inverse coherence length, ﹩{l}_{c}^{-1}﹩), showing that regions of strong curvature tend to coincide with weaker magnetic fields. A power-law slope of −1/2 is provided for reference.

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