Flare Physics in Solar Activity Maximum 22: Proceedings of the International SOLAR-A Science Meeting Held at Tokyo, Japan, 23–26 October 1990

General introduction....Pages 1-4
In memoriam Katsuo Tanaka....Pages 5-8
The sources of solar flares....Pages 9-12
The Solar-A mission....Pages 13-17
Soft X-ray telescope (SXT)....Pages 18-19
The Hard X-ray Telescope(HXT) on board SOLAR-A....Pages 20-21
The Solar-A Bragg crystal spectrometer....Pages 22-23
The wide band spectrometer on the Solar-A....Pages 24-25
The SOLAR-A onboard Data Processor (DP)....Pages 26-27
Capabilities and limitations of Solar-A....Pages 28-36
Optical observations of flare-productive flux emergence....Pages 37-50
Flares appear on the red shift side near the inversion line of the H β Dopplergram....Pages 51-57
Small scale active phenomena observed with DST and Huairou magnetogram....Pages 58-61
Microflares observed in He I 10830 and their relation to the quiet sun magnetic fields....Pages 62-66
HeI 10830Å observations of active regions....Pages 67-70
Numerical simulations of ultraviolet and X-ray microflares....Pages 71-74
Particle acceleration and the locations of hard X-ray sources....Pages 75-88
The controversial relationship between hard X-ray and soft X-ray flares: Causal or non-causal?....Pages 89-95
Magnetic morphology of nonthermal electron precipitation during three flares in a highly nonpotential active region....Pages 96-99
The role of accelerated ions during the impulsive phase of flares and the production of hard X-rays....Pages 100-105
Physical implications of X-ray imaging observations....Pages 106-109
Studies of high-energy flare phenomena from simultaneous observations of gamma-rays and energetic particles....Pages 110-113
Acceleration of high-energy nuclei as viewed from their chemical composition....Pages 114-117
Heating and flows in flares....Pages 119-132
Studies of helium-like ion spectra with the SMM flat crystal spectrometer....Pages 133-136
X-ray spectra from Hinotori satellite and suprathermal electrons....Pages 137-140
Quality improvement of solar flare temperature and density diagnostics derived from BCS spectra....Pages 141-145
The beam driven chromospheric evaporation model of large solar flares: a model getting “no respect” from the sun....Pages 146-152
Numerical simulations of electron-beam-heated solar flares....Pages 153-156
A hydrodynamic thermal model of the impulsive phase of solar flares....Pages 157-160
Material flow of a surge flare....Pages 161-164
Evolution of hot plasma in flares....Pages 165-178
The electron distribution and SXT images of a coronal soft X-ray source....Pages 179-183
Interpretation of multi-channel X-ray intensities from solar flares....Pages 184-187
Thermodynamic evolution of flares....Pages 188-192
Simulation of SXT response to XSST soft X-ray spectrum....Pages 193-196
Magnetic morphologies of solar flares....Pages 197-201
Theoretical models of solar flares....Pages 203-218
The practical application of the magnetic virial theorem....Pages 219-223
Maximum energy of semi-infinite magnetic-field configurations....Pages 224-227
High-energy particle acceleration during the implosion driven by 3-dimensional X-type current loop coalescence in solar flares....Pages 228-229
On mechanisms of solar flares —some observational tests by using Solar-A....Pages 230-236
Plasma waves caused by transient heat conduction in a coronal loop as a trigger for impulsive solar flares....Pages 237-241
Magnetic structures in the corona....Pages 243-258
Chromospheric and coronal activities in the quiet sun originating from photospheric 5-minute oscillations....Pages 259-263
VLA supporting observations for SOLAR-A....Pages 264-270
X-ray observations of global solar activity....Pages 271-282
Coronal structures and the sunspot cycle....Pages 283-286
Absorption of magnetoacoustic waves in the solar atmosphere with random inhomogeneities of density and magnetic fields....Pages 287-290
SXT observations of MHD turbulence in active regions....Pages 291-296
Simulated SXT observations of coronal loops....Pages 297-301
Max \'91/FLARES 22....Pages 303-311
Studies of X-Ray flares by project CORONAS....Pages 312-315
Solar energetic particle observation by GEOTAIL satellite....Pages 316-319
Solar flare telescope and 10-cm new coronagraph....Pages 320-323
The MSFC vector magnetograph, eruptive flares, and the Solar-A X-ray images....Pages 324-329
Nobeyama radioheliograph....Pages 330-337
Millimeter interferometric observations of solar flares during the Solar A mission....Pages 338-343
Coronal restructuring and coronal mass ejections as infrared from interplanetary magnetic flux ropes....Pages 344-348
A proposal for a study of the solar wind near the sun by simultaneous observations with SOLAR-A and Kashima 34m antenna....Pages 349-352
Search for transient coronal holes by SOLAR-A soft X-ray telescope....Pages 353-356
Application of SOLAR-A SXT data to flare and geomagnetic storm forecasting research....Pages 357-360