Solar and Stellar Flares

concert at Dinkelspiel Auditorium 'An Evening of Songs and Arias' hosted by Dr Kip Cranna of San Francisco Opera, produced and directed by Elizabeth Tucker, and featuring soprano Ellie Holt Murray, mezzo-soprano Marsha Sims; tenor Richard Walker, and baritone David Taft Kekuewa, with piano accompaniment by Mark Haffner, staff coach for San Francisco Opera. Two scientific themes clearly emerged from this conference: (1) the key to progress in flare research lies in a multispectral approach with as much temporal resolution as the photon fluxes allow; and (2) the key to understanding the physics lies in a dynamic interaction between solar and stellar investigations and investigators. During the eight sessions solar and stellar topics were balanced and intermixed in 33 invited and oral presentations. We are particularly pleased that these proceedings will be the springboard to publication of solar-stellar articles in the journal Solar Physics. In addition, 115 very exciting posters were also displayed and a companion volume containing many of these is available as a publication of the Catania Astrophysical Observatory. We dedicate this book to the Solar Maximum Mission and to the Flare Star Consor tium. To all our solar-stellar friends and colleagues: 'Thank you!' BERNHARD M. HAISCH and MARCELLO RODONO 28 March. 1989 AN OVERVIEW OF SOLAR AND STELLAR FLARE RESEARCH BERNHARD M. HAlSCH Div. 91-30. Bldg. 255. Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory. 3251 Hanover St .- Palo Alto. CA 94304. U.S.A.

Proceedings of the 104th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, held at Stanford, California, August 15-19, 1988

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Preface.- An Overview of Solar and Stellar Flare Research.- Electron Beam as Origin of White-Light Solar Flares.- Solar Flare Diagnostic: Present and Future.- Multi-Wavelength Observations of Stellar Flares.- Solar Flares: the Impulsive Phase.- Electron Acceleration in Solar Flares.- Models of Flaring Loops.- Stellar Flare Spectral Diagnotics: Present and Future.- Preflare Activity.- Simultaneous Multi-Frequency Imaging Observations of Solar Microwave Bursts.- Radio Emission from Stellar Flares.- Solar and Stellar Magnetic Fields and Structures: Observations.- The Association of Flares to Cancelling Magnetic Features on the Sun.- Mass Motions Associated with Solar Flares.- Solar and Stellar Flares: Questions and Problems.- The Importance of Solar White-Light Flares.- Solar and Stellar Magnetic Fields and Atmospheric Structures: Theory.- Hydrodynamic Models of Solar and Stellar Flares.- A Review of Stellar Flares and Their Characteristics.- Long-Duration Solar and Stellar Flares.- Solar Flares: High-Energy Radiation and Particles.- Magnetic Equilibria and Instabilities.- A Solar Flare Observed with the SMM and Einstein Satellites.- Stellar Flare Statistics - Physical Consequences.- The Role of Eruption in Solar Flares.- Solar Flares: The Gradual Phase.- Polarimetry of Stellar Active Regions and Flares.- Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares.- Cyclotron Lines in the Spectra of Solar Flares and Solar Active Regions.- Discussions.