Thermal Electron Heating During Macroscale Magnetic Reconnection in solar flares

Harry Arnold1, James Frederick Drake2, Marc Swisdak3, Fan Guo4, Joel Dahlin5 and Qile Zhang4, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States