Electron Acceleration in Reconnecting Current Sheets

Details Electron Acceleration in Reconnecting Current Sheets Electron Acceleration in Reconnecting Current Sheets

Jan 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005soph..226...73w&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 226, Issue 1, pp.73-95

Physics

48

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We present the results of charged particle orbit calculations in prescribed electric and magnetic fields motivated by magnetic reconnection models. Due to the presence of a strong guide field, the particle orbits can be calculated in the guiding centre approximation. The electromagnetic fields are chosen to resemble a reconnecting magnetic current sheet with a localised reconnection region. An initially Maxwellian distribution function in the inflow region can develop a beam-like component in the outflow region. Possible implications of these findings for acceleration scenarios in solar flares will be discussed.

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