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Solar and Stellar Flares: Questions and Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D. J. Mullan*
Affiliation:
Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Although progress has been made in understanding certain aspects of the physics of solar and stellar flares, there are a number of topics which, in the author's opinion, still pose a problem. We summarize these topics here.

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Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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