Return Current And The Energy Deposit In Flares
Abstract
The return current related effects in flares represent one of the possible mechanisms of conversion of the kinetic energy of electron beams into the thermal energy of flare plasma. Using a 1-D particle in cell model details of formation and properties of the return current driven by monoenergetic electron beams are calculated. Using the results of the simulations the influence of the return current on the energy deposit in flares are discussed.
- Publication:
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IAU Joint Discussion
- Pub Date:
- August 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006IAUJD...1E..51V