Recent Advances in the Understanding of Solar Flares

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Spacecraft with Major Solar Instruments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to HINOTORI

      • Y. Tanaka

      Pages 3-6

   3. The Solar Maximum Mission

      • K. J. Frost

      Pages 7-7

   4. Solar Instruments on the P78-1 Spacecraft

      • G. A. Doschek

      Pages 9-17

3. General Characteristics of Flares

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Development of Flare Morphology in X-rays, and the Flare Scenario

      • C. de Jager

      Pages 21-32

   3. Magnetic Theories of Solar Flares

      • E. R. Priest

      Pages 33-45

4. Energy Transport, Chromospheric Heating and Evaporation (Part 1)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Solar Flare X-ray Spectra from the P78-1 Spacecraft

      • G. A. Doschek

      Pages 49-58

   3. Non-Thermal and Non-Equilibrium Effects in Soft X-ray Flare Spectra

      • A. H. Gabriel, E. Antonucci, L. Steenman-Clark

      Pages 59-66

   4. Observation of Chromospheric Evaporation during the Solar Maximum Mission

      • E. Antonucci, B. R. Dennis

      Pages 67-77

   5. Transport and Containment of Plasma, Particles and Energy within Flares

      • L. W. Acton, W. A. Brown, M. E. C. Bruner, B. M. Haisch, K. T. Strong

      Pages 79-90

   6. Interpretation of the Soft X-ray Spectra from Hinotori

      • K. Tanaka, N. Nitta, K. Akita, T. Watanabe

      Pages 91-100

   7. Polarization Measurements Using the Bragg Crystal Spectrometers on Hinotori

      • Kyo Akita, Katsuo Tanaka, Tetsuya Watanabe

      Pages 101-105

   8. Thermal Evolution of Flare Plasma

      • Tetsuya Watanabe, Katsuo Tanaka, Kyo Akita, Nariaki Nitta

      Pages 107-113

   9. Conductive Flux in the Chromosphere Derived from Line Linear Polarization Observation

      • J.-C. Henoux, G. Chambe, D. Heristchi, M. Semel, B. Woodgate, D. Shine et al.

      Pages 115-122

   10. Upper Limits on the Total Radiant Energy of Solar Flares

       • H. S. Hudson, R. C. Willson

       Pages 123-130

5. Energy Transport, Chromospheric Heating and Evaporation (Part 2)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Energetic Electrons as an Energy Transport Mechanism in Solar Flares

      • A. Gordon Emslie

      Pages 133-146

These Proceedings result from the papers and discussions of the U.S.-Japan Seminar "Recent Advances in the Understanding of Solar Flares" held in Tokyo October 5-8, 1982. The meeting was sponsored jointly by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the u.S. National Science Foundation. The principal aim of the meeting was to obtain the most up-to-date physical picture of solar flares by bringing together results from the recent observations by the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) and HINOTORI satellites, together with other satellite data and ground-based data at both optical and radio wavelengths. These data cover the recent maximum of the solar activity cycle. The SMM and HINOTORI introduced a new dimension in flare observations by carrying out the first hard X-ray imaging observations, and the organizers especially felt that an intense discussion of the significance of these results in the context of flare theories would be important. Starting with an introductory presentation of the characteristics of the instruments on board the satellites, the sessions of the first day and the beginning of the second dealt mainly with energy transport in flares and with .the formation process of the hot plasma which is .

• Chromosphere
• Corona
• Solar flare
• Variation
• solar
• solar activity

• University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

  S. R. Kane

• Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, University of Tokyo, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

  Y. Uchida, K. Tanaka

• Center for Astrophysics and Space Science, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA

  H. S. Hudson

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