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The Sun as a Stellar Laboratory: Unsolved Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

John C. Brown
John C. Brown*
Affiliation:
Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, U.K.

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A brief overview is given of some of the current outstanding problems in solar physics with greatest emphasis on high energy phenomena in the atmosphere. The importance of plasma kinetic effects, as well as MHD, in understanding the complex finely structured and dynamic solar atmospheric plasma is stressed. Key results from the RHESSI Mission on energetic flare particle acceleration, propagation, and flare energy budgets are presented as are recent findings concerning the solar and stellar flare Neupert effect and the possible role of energetic particles in micro-events in the ‘non-flaring’ sun. Finally, evidence showing that magnetic fields are also important in hot star phenomena is mentioned.

Type
Part 1: Introduction: The Sun, the Stars, and the Planets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 219: Stars as Suns : Activity, Evolution and Planets , 2004 , pp. 1 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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