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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik
EP 15: Heliophysics III
EP 15.2: Talk
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 16:15–16:30, Zahnklinik
The Transport of MeV-Electrons in the Heliospheric Magnetic Field — •Oliver Sternal1, Bernd Heber1, Horst Fichtner2, Adri Burger3, Phillip Dunzlaff1, and Andreas Kopp1 — 1Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Leibnizstr. 11, 24118 Kiel, Germany — 2Institut für Theoretische Physik, Lehrstuhl IV: Weltraum- und*Astrophysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany — 3School of Physics, North-West University, 2520 Potchefstroom, South Africa
The propagation of energetic particles in the heliosphere is described by the Parker transport equation. It includes the physical processes of diffusion, drift, convection and adiabatic energy changes. For the inner heliosphere the Jovian magnetosphere is the dominant source of energetic electrons. Therefore the so-called Jovian electrons are nearly perfect test particles in order to study transport theories. In this contribution we present model calculations of the electron flux in Parker- and Fisk-type heliospheric magnetic field configurations and compare our results to spacecraft data.