Observational Plasma Astrophysics: Five Years of Yohkoh and Beyond

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Evolution of the Solar Corona from the Maximum to Minimum....Pages 3-12
Density, Temperature and Magnetic Field Structure of High Latitude Corona....Pages 13-13
Studies of Coronal Temperature....Pages 15-17
The Behavior of Coronal Holes....Pages 19-26
Deep Survey of Solar Nano-Flares with Yohkoh....Pages 27-28
The Sun as an X-Ray Star: Overview of the Method....Pages 29-38
Coronal Heating Due to Twisting Faculae of 1 km Radii....Pages 39-44
Comparison between Statistical Features of X-ray Fluctuations from the Solar Corona and Accretion Disks....Pages 45-50
From the Sun to the Galaxy Clusters....Pages 51-60
High Energy Emission from Blazars....Pages 61-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Magnetic Reconnection and Dynamos in Laboratory Plasmas....Pages 73-82
A Mechanism Driving Solar Flares....Pages 83-84
On the Origin of Helicity in Active Region Magnetic Fields....Pages 85-86
SXR Coronal Polar Jets and Recurrent Flashes....Pages 87-94
The Filament Disappearance of May 7, 1992....Pages 95-100
Coronal and Interplanetary Disturbances Associated with an Eruptive Prominence of 28 August 1992....Pages 101-106
 Yohkoh Observations of Superhot Plasma in Solar Flares....Pages 107-112
Non-Thermal Velocities Observed by Yohkoh....Pages 113-114
Magnetohydrodynamics of Accretion Disks....Pages 115-120
Magnetic Loops in the Hot Universe....Pages 121-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Computer Simulations of Twisted Flux Tubes and Magnetic Reconnection....Pages 133-136
Magnetic Reconnection and Flares in Star Forming Regions: Flares in Protostars....Pages 137-142
Magnetically Driven Jets from Accretion Disks: Nonsteady 2.5D-MHD Simulation....Pages 143-148
Numerical Simulation of Relativistic Jet Formation in Black Hole Magnetosphere....Pages 149-154
Pair Plasma Production in a Black Hole Magnetosphere....Pages 155-160
MHD Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Corona and Flares....Pages 161-170
Several Problems with Classical “Reclosing of Opened-up Simple Arcade” Models for Arcade Flares and Arcade Formation Events....Pages 171-172
Plasmoid Formation in Eruptive Flares....Pages 173-174
Plasma Motion in Solar Flares Observed by the Nobeyama Radioheliograph....Pages 175-178
Current Sheet Formation and Reconnection on Separator Field Lines....Pages 179-184
Bifurcation-Transition Dynamics in Solar Coronal Plasma....Pages 185-186
A Unified Model of Solar Flares....Pages 187-196
Activity Caused by Interacting Loops and Evolution of Magnetic Field....Pages 197-206
Loop-Loop Interaction in Impulsive Solar Flares Inferred from Microwave and X-Ray Images....Pages 207-208
Horseshoe-Shaped H α Flares on 13 Oct. 1995 and an Emerging Flux Model of Flares....Pages 209-214
Soho — Yohkoh Science Collaboration....Pages 217-226
The Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer on SOHO....Pages 227-236
NOAA 7978: The Last Best Old-Cycle Region?....Pages 237-244
S XV Spectral Properties of an Active Region from the Yohkoh Bragg Crystal Spectrometer....Pages 245-248
The Relationship Between UV and X-Ray Brightenings....Pages 249-250
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Joint Observations of an Active Region with Soho and Yohkoh....Pages 251-255
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Coronal Hard X-Ray Sources in Solar Flares Observed with Yohkoh/HXT....Pages 259-268
Hard X-Ray Emission from a Mirror Trap at the Top of Reconnecting Loops....Pages 269-271
Energy Release and Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares with Respect to Flaring Magnetic Loops....Pages 273-284
What did Yohkoh and Compton Change in Our Perception of Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares?....Pages 285-294
Microwave and Hard X-Ray Observations of an X-Class Limb Flare....Pages 295-296
Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares....Pages 297-306
Activity in NOAA AR7172....Pages 309-312
Acceleration of Charged Particles in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection....Pages 313-314
The Formation and Evolution of the Coronal Holes Associated with NOAA Region 7978....Pages 315-318
Horizontal Flow Field in the Solar Photosphere....Pages 319-320
Local Three-Dimensional MHD Simulations of the Parker Instability in Differentially Rotating Disks....Pages 321-324
Limits on the Temperature of Impulsive Phase Solar Flare Hard X-ray Emission, and the Amount of Thermal X-rays Present in the Yohkoh HXT-LO (14–24 keV) Channel....Pages 325-326
Homologous Flare Series of February 1992....Pages 327-330
Simulation Study on Magneto-Gravity Instabilities in Magnetic Shear Field....Pages 331-332
X-Ray Plasma Ejections and Jets from Solar Compact Flares Observed with the Yohkoh Soft X-Ray Telescope....Pages 333-336
Nonthermal Effects in Fe XXV Spectra Observed by Yohkoh/BCS....Pages 337-340
Using the Yohkoh BCS to Check Element Abundances and Ionization Fractions....Pages 341-344
Maximum Energy of Force-Free Magnetic Fields....Pages 345-348
A Study of Preflare X-Ray Brightenings....Pages 349-352
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Non-Linear Evolution of Erupting Coronal Magnetic Fields....Pages 353-356
Study of Solar X-ray Jets Observed by the Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope....Pages 357-360
Deconvolution of Yohkoh Soft X-ray Images....Pages 361-364
Post-Flare Structures Rising with Decreasing or Constant Speed....Pages 365-369
Soft X-ray Features of Prominence Eruption and Disappearance....Pages 371-374
Yohkoh Observations and Interplanetary Disturbances....Pages 375-378
Evolution of Coronal Active Regions Observed with the Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope....Pages 379-382
XUV Doppler Telescope Aboard Sounding Rocket....Pages 383-390
Magnetic Reconnection in the Active Region Inferred by Homologous Soft X-ray Flares in February 1992....Pages 391-396
Back Matter....Pages 397-398