Physical Processes in Solar Flares
Solar flares are very complex electromagnetic phenomena of a cataclysmic nature. Particles are accelerated to very high velocities and a variety of physical processes happen inside and outside flares. These processes can be studied by a large number of techniques from Earth and from space. The aim i...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1992, 1992
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1992 |
| Series: | Astrophysics and Space Science Library
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 / The Present State of the Solar Problem
- 1.1.Observed phenomena and the energetics of solar flares
- 1.2.Physical concepts of the nature of flares
- 1.3.Flare-induced physical processes in the solar atmosphere
- 1.4.The solar flare problem
- 2 / Chromospheric Heating: The Mechanism Producing High-Temperature Plasma in Solar Flares
- 2.1.Impulsive heating by accelerated electrons
- 2.2.Impulsive heating by intense heat flows
- 2.3.Chromospheric heating by X-ray emission
- 3 / Magnetic Reconnection and Energy Release in Solar Flares
- 3.1.Reconnection as a heating mechanism for X-ray coronal loops
- 3.2.The natural high-temperature turbulent current sheet
- 3.3.The high-temperature turbulent current sheet with a small transverse magnetic field
- 3.4.The current sheet structure under the fast and slow reconnection regimes
- 3.5.Stabilization of tearing instability in current sheets on the Sun
- 3.6.The effect of the longitudinal magnetic field in the current sheets on the Sun
- Conclusion
- References