Particle Acceleration and Trapping in Solar Flares: Selected Contributions to the Workshop held at Aubigny-sur-Nère (Bourges), France, June 23-26, 1986

by G. Trottet (Editor), M. Pick (Editor)

Overview

These are the Proceedings of the Second CESRA Workshop on Particle Acceleration and Trapping in Solar Flares. The Workshop was held on June 23-26,1986, at the city hall of Aubigny-sur-Nere (France), near Bourges and near the Nan

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789027726094
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/31/1987
Edition description:	1987
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Session I: Acceleration Processes.- Acceleration and Energization by Currents and Electric Fields (Invited Review).- Electron Acceleration within Coronal Loops: a Wave-Particle Process?.- Evidence for Interacting Loop Process in a Phase of the May 16, 1981 Flare.- Effects of Turbulence Development in Solar Surges.- Type II Solar Radio Emission — a Self-Consistent Approach.- A Type IV Burst Associated with a Coronal Streamer Disruption Event.- Session II: Particle Storage.- Quasi-Monochromatic Wave-Particle Interactions in Magnetospheric Plasmas (Invited Review).- Microwave Sources of Solar Flares: Loop Top or Foot Points?.- Session III: Emission Processes.- Plasma Emission: A Review (Invited Review).- Spotless Flares and the Associated Radio Continuum Emission.- Session IV: Radio Pulsations.- Theory of Radio Pulsations in Coronal Loops (Invited Review).- Beat Structure in Pulsating Type IV Solar Radio Bursts and a Possible Mechanism.- Repetition Rates of Fast Pulses in a Solar Burst Observed at mm-Waves and Hard X-rays.- Session V: Cyclotron Maser, Spikes.- Electron Cyclotron Maser Emission from Solar Flares (Invited Review).- The Saturation of Electron Cyclotron Maser and the Time Profile of Emitted Spikes.- Harmonic Emission and Polarization of Millisecond Radio Spikes.- Evidence of Harmonic Microwave Radiation during Solar Flares.- Low-Level Decimetric (1.6 GHz) Solar Burst Activity.- Direct Generation of Solar and Stellar Radio Bursts by Energetic Electron Maser.- Session VI: Hard X-Ray Bursts.- Hard X-Ray Emission Processes in Solar Flares (Invited Review).- Hard X-Ray and Radio Emission at the Onset of Great Solar Flares.- Announcement.

Editorial Reviews

'This is undoubtedly a book for the specialist in flare physics or particle acceleration processes, but the editors are to be congratulated in assembling such an impressive array of authoritative authors both in the reviews and in the contributed papers.'
B. Roberts, The Observatory, Vol. 109

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