Flare Physics in Solar Activity Maximum 22: Proceedings of the International SOLAR-A Science Meeting Held at Tokyo, Japan, 2326 October 1990, Dedicat [Paperback]

The book reviews the knowledge obtained from ground-basedand space-borne solar flare research thus at the same timepreparing for the forthcoming mission of the satellite SolarA which will be launched in 1991. Accordinglyone section isdevoted to experiments on Solar A. The rest review boththeory and observational facts to give a physicallyrealistic picture of flares, including problems of magneticflux emergence, high energy particles in flares, heating andflows in flares, and further problems of solar activity.General introduction.- In memoriam Katsuo Tanaka.- The sources of solar flares.- The Solar-A mission.- Soft X-ray telescope (SXT).- The Hard X-ray Telescope(HXT) on board SOLAR-A.- The Solar-A Bragg crystal spectrometer.- The wide band spectrometer on the Solar-A.- The SOLAR-A onboard Data Processor (DP).- Capabilities and limitations of Solar-A.- Optical observations of flare-productive flux emergence.- Flares appear on the red shift side near the inversion line of the H? Dopplergram.- Small scale active phenomena observed with DST and Huairou magnetogram.- Microflares observed in He I 10830 and their relation to the quiet sun magnetic fields.- HeI 10830? observations of active regions.- Numerical simulations of ultraviolet and X-ray microflares.- Particle acceleration and the locations of hard X-ray sources.- The controversial relationship between hard X-ray and soft X-ray flares: Causal or non-causal?.- Magnetic morphology of nonthermal electron precipitation during three flares in a highly nonpotential active region.- The role of accelerated ions during the impulsive phase of flares and the production of hard X-rays.- Physical implications of X-ray imaging observations.- Studies of high-energy flare phenomena from simultaneous observations of gamma-rays and energetic particles.- Acceleration of high-energy nuclei as viewed from their chemical composition.- Heating and flows in flares.- Studies of helium-like ion spectra with lS)