Acceleration of Relativistic Electrons by MHD Turbulence: Implications for Non-thermal Emission from Black Hole Accretion Disks

Jacob W. Lynn, Eliot Quataert, Benjamin D. G. Chandran +1

We use analytic estimates and numerical simulations of test particles interacting with magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence to show that subsonic MHD turbulence produces efficient…