Eruptive Solar Flares: Proceedings of Colloquium No. 133 of the International Astronomical Union Held at Iguaz?, Argentina, 26 August 1991 [Paperback]

This is an exhaustive survey of present-day solar research including both theory and observations. It deals with eruptive flares, filament eruption in x-rays and radio waves, energy release and transport, and terrestrial response to solar flares. Details of the most recent SOLAR-A project (launched shortly after the conference) are also presented.History and basic characteristics of eruptive flares.- Basic magnetic configuration and energy supply processes for an interacting flux model of eruptive solar flares.- The role of cancelling magnetic fields in the buildup to erupting filaments and flares.- Variation of the vector magnetic field in an eruptive flare.- Intrinsically hot flares and a possible connection to deep convective magnetic fields.- Interaction of large-scale magnetic structures in solar flares.- The intrinsic relationship between flares and eruption of filament currents.- Filament eruptions, flaring arches and eruptive flares.- MHD non-equilibrium: A numerical experiment.- Triggering of eruptive flares: Destabilization of the preflare magnetic field configuration.- Field opening and reconnection.- Energy release at Alfv?nic fronts in a force-free magnetic flux tube.- Energy transport in solar flares: Implications for Ca XIX emission.- Fluid flow in a jet and the CA XIX line profiles observed during solar flares.- Characteristics of the impulsive phase of flares.- Comparison of UV and X-ray solar flare observations and theoretical models.- White-light flares.- Post flare loops.- Plasma parameters derived from MSDP observations of cool flare loops.- Flare evolution in the density temperature diagram.- The Neupert Effect: What can i tell us about the impulsive and gradual phases of eruptive flares?.- Particle acceleration in the impulsive phase of solar flares.- Kinetic description of electron beams in the chromosphere.- Nuclear reactions in flares.- Radio emission of eruptive flares.- Arcsecond determination of solar burst centers of emission simultanlӮ