Eruptive Solar Flares: Proceedings of Colloquium No. 133 of the International Astronomical Union Held at Iguazú, Argentina, 2–6 August 1991

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages -
History and basic characteristics of eruptive flares....Pages 1-11
Basic magnetic configuration and energy supply processes for an interacting flux model of eruptive solar flares....Pages 13-32
The role of cancelling magnetic fields in the buildup to erupting filaments and flares....Pages 33-45
Variation of the vector magnetic field in an eruptive flare....Pages 46-52
Intrinsically hot flares and a possible connection to deep convective magnetic fields....Pages 53-53
Interaction of large-scale magnetic structures in solar flares....Pages 54-54
The intrinsic relationship between flares and eruption of filament currents....Pages 55-58
Filament eruptions, flaring arches and eruptive flares....Pages 59-64
MHD non-equilibrium: A numerical experiment....Pages 65-68
Triggering of eruptive flares: Destabilization of the preflare magnetic field configuration....Pages 69-78
Field opening and reconnection....Pages 79-88
Energy release at Alfvénic fronts in a force-free magnetic flux tube....Pages 89-92
Energy transport in solar flares: Implications for Ca XIX emission....Pages 93-104
Fluid flow in a jet and the CA XIX line profiles observed during solar flares....Pages 105-105
Characteristics of the impulsive phase of flares....Pages 106-115
Comparison of UV and X-ray solar flare observations and theoretical models....Pages 116-117
White-light flares....Pages 118-123
“Post” flare loops....Pages 124-133
Plasma parameters derived from MSDP observations of cool flare loops....Pages 134-134
Flare evolution in the density temperature diagram....Pages 135-138
The Neupert Effect: What can i tell us about the impulsive and gradual phases of eruptive flares?....Pages 139-143
Particle acceleration in the impulsive phase of solar flares....Pages 145-156
Kinetic description of electron beams in the chromosphere....Pages 157-160
Nuclear reactions in flares....Pages 161-170
Radio emission of eruptive flares....Pages 171-176
Arcsecond determination of solar burst centers of emission simultaneous to high time resolution and high sensitivity at 48 GHz....Pages 177-179
Trapping and escape of the high energy particles responsible for major proton events....Pages 180-185
Coronal and interplanetary transport of solar flare protons from the ground level event of 29 september 1989....Pages 186-189
High energetic solar proton flares of 19 to 29 October 1989....Pages 190-193
Large-scale quasi-stationary X-ray coronal structures associated with eruptive solar flares....Pages 195-206
Large scale structures associated with eruptive flares and radio waves....Pages 207-213
Coronal millimeter sources associated with eruptive flares....Pages 214-219
On the association between large scale X-ray brightenings and solar flares....Pages 220-220
A giant post-flare coronal arch observed by Skylab....Pages 221-224
Characteristics of coronal mass ejections....Pages 225-233
The solar sources of coronal mass ejections....Pages 234-247
Remote sensing observations of mass ejections and shocks in interplanetary space....Pages 248-257
In situ observations of coronal mass ejections in interplanetary space....Pages 258-267
Meter-decameter radio emission associated with a coronal mass ejection....Pages 268-271
Models of normal and inverse polarity filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections....Pages 272-275
MHD shocks and simple waves in CMES....Pages 276-276
Terrestrial response to eruptive solar flares: Geomagnetic storms....Pages 277-286
Stellar flares: Confined or eruptive events?....Pages 287-300
Radio flare emission from late-type stars....Pages 301-306
The Solar-A mission experiments and the targets....Pages 307-313
Nobeyama radioheliograph....Pages 314-317
Decimeter high resolution solar radio spectroscope....Pages 318-321
Considerations of a Solar Mass Ejection Imager in a low-earth orbit....Pages 322-328
An Observational-conceptual model of the formation of filaments....Pages 329-332
Dynamics in the prominence-corona transition region from HRTS spectra....Pages 333-336
Active region classifications, complexity, and flare rates....Pages 337-340
Compact sources of suprathermal microwave emission detected in quiescent active regions during lunar occulatations....Pages 341-341
Velocity field in the 13 June 1980 flare area....Pages 342-342
Deformation of magnetic null points....Pages 343-346
The X12 limb flare and spray of 01 June 1991....Pages 347-350
Analysis of X-ray flares observed by the SMM spacecraft....Pages 351-354
Distribution function for electron beams in the chromosphere....Pages 355-358
Sub-second variations of HXR and H-alpha flare emission....Pages 359-362
The role of protons in solar flares....Pages 363-366
High spectral resolution of MM-wavelength (23 – 18 GHz) solar bursts....Pages 367-367
Microwave flare characteristics in 8 and 3 mm Metsähovi measurements compared with optical and H-alpha data....Pages 368-371
Simultaneous Hα and microwave observations of a limb flare on June 20, 1989....Pages 372-372
Nonresonant ion-beam turbulence in solar flares....Pages 373-376
Nonlinear emission mechanism of type III solar radio bursts....Pages 377-380
A numerical simulation of magnetically driven coronal mass ejections....Pages 381-384
Coronal mass ejections: The link between solar and geomagnetic activity....Pages 385-385
A study of geomagnetic variations with periods of four years, six months and 27 days....Pages 386-389
Atmospheric models of flare stars....Pages 390-393
The emerging picture of eruptive solar flares....Pages 395-409