The international team of experts in the theory and observation of solar chromospheric flares will focus on the question of energy deposition in solar flares. How can multi-wavelength, high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution observations of the flare chromosphere from spaceand ground-based observatories be interpreted in the context of detailed modeling of flare radiative transfer and hydrodynamics? With these tools we can pin down the depth in the chromosphere at which flare energy is deposited, its time evolution and the response of the chromosphere to this dramatic event. We will undertake a program of advanced numerical simulation and multi-wavelength data analysis, and study the diagnostic potential that these bring, with the possibilities offered by future instrumentation in also mind.
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Fletcher, L., Hudson, H., Cauzzi, G., Getman, K. V., Giampapa, M., Hawley, S. L., Heinzel, P., Johnstone, C., Kowalski, A. F., Osten, R. A., Pye, J., 201, Splinter Session "Solar and Stellar Flares", Proceedings of the 16th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, ASP 448, 441
Heinzel, P., Avrett, E. H., Optical-to-Radio Continua in Solar Flares, 2012, Sol. Phys. 277, 31
Hudson, H.S., Fletcher, L., MacKinnon, A.L., Woods, T.N., Charge-exchange limits on low-energy alpha-particle fluxes
in solar flares, 2012, Solar Physics (in press)
Milligan, R. O., Spatially resolved nonthermal line broadening during the impulsive phase of a solar flare, 2011, ApJ 740, 70
Milligan, R.O., Chamberlin, P.C., Hudson, H.S., Woods, T.N., Mathioudakis, M., Fletcher, L., Kowalski, A.F., Keenan,
F.P., Observations of enhanced EUV continua during an X-class solar flare using SDO/EVE, Astrophysical Journal
Letters, 2012, ApJ 748, L14
Rubio da Costa, F., Zuccarello, F., Fletcher, L., Labrosse, N., Prosecky, T., Kasparova, J., Solar flares in H-alpha and Ly-alpha: observations vs simulations, 2012, Mem. S. A. It. Suppl. VOl. 19, 117
Last update on 29th Feb 2012 by Jana Kašparová (kasparov (at) asu.cas.cz)