Particle Heating in Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
I review particle heating by MHD turbulence in collisionless plasmas appropriate to advection-dominated accretion flows. These considerations suggest that the preferential turbulent heating of protons assumed by theoretical models is only achieved for relatively subthermal magnetic fields.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9809332,
title = {Particle Heating in Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows},
author = {Eliot Quataert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9809332},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, uses paspconf.sty, to appear in Proc. of ``The Workshop on High Energy Processes in Accreting Black Holes,'' eds. J. Poutanen & R. Svensson