Dynamic Alignment and Exact Scaling Laws in MHD Turbulence

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2006-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605233v2

Astrophysical Journal Letters 699 (2009) L39-L42

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/699/1/L39

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is pervasive in astrophysical systems. Recent high-resolution numerical simulations suggest that the energy spectrum of strong incompressible MHD turbulence is $E(k_{\perp})\propto k_{\perp}^{-3/2}$. So far, there has been no phenomenological theory that simultaneously explains this spectrum and satisfies the exact analytic relations for MHD turbulence due to Politano & Pouquet. Indeed, the Politano-Pouquet relations are often invoked to suggest that the spectrum of MHD turbulence instead has the Kolmogorov scaling -5/3. Using geometrical arguments and numerical tests, here we analyze this seeming contradiction and demonstrate that the -3/2 scaling and the Politano-Pouquet relations are reconciled by the phenomenon of scale-dependent dynamic alignment that was recently discovered in MHD turbulence.

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