Flares and Flashes: Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium No. 151, Held in Sonneberg, Germany, 59 December 1994 [Paperback]

The contributions to the 151st IAU Colloquium cover different fields of recent research, observational as well as theoretical, on solar and stellar flares ranging from radio up to gamma-ray wavelengths. A special chapter is devoted to all-sky monitoring and, finally, the excerpts of a round-table discussion present the reader with an interesting outlook on future developments. This book is therefore a unique source for those who want to get a complete picture of this fascinating part of modern astrophysics.Solar flares.- Flares: The solar-stellar connection.- Radio emission from flares in single late-type stars.- High-resolution dynamic spectrum of a spectacular radio burst from AD Leonis.- VLBI observations of flares in RS CVn binary systems.- Coherent radio bursts from RS CVn binaries.- Systematic radio-observations of UX Arietis: Analysis of its variability.- Radio flares in HR 1099 (V711 Tau).- Sunspot proper motion and flare frequency.- Optical flares: Observations and interpretations.- The red dwarf star population in the galaxy.- Kinematics and ages of UV Ceti stars.- Flare activity among nearby stars.- Young and old subsystems of flare stars.- Flare activity and cluster membership probability of flare stars.- New EUV selected flare stars.- Flare stars in a field near the North Galactic Pole: ROSAT and optical observations.- Some results of the coordinated observations of the red dwarf flare star EV Lac in 19861994.- A possible discovery of a flaring 1012 eV gamma-ray source near the red dwarf EV Lac.- Short-time flare events of EV Lac.- Observations of high-frequency activity of EV Lacertae.- Spectral and photometrical investigation of EV Lac in different states with high time resolution.- Photoelectric observations of AD Leo: 19891994.- Multifrequency analysis of a UV Ceti flare on 1991 December 31.- A large amplitude flaring dMe star in the 1978 October 6B ?-ray burst error box.- A major optical flare on the recently discovered X-ray active dMe star G102lc*