Hugh Hudson, Mr. - Ph.D.
SSL/UC Berkeley
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~hhudson
       
       
Session 4 - Key-note Speaker

The chromosphere and flare energy

Hugh Hudson (SSL/UC Berkeley)
       

In this paper I discuss the role of the chromosphere in flare energetics. The chromosphere may play a role in the dynamics, because the magnetic support of its mass in non-vertical fields may help to drive coronal current systems. This source of stress seems unlikely to play a major role in flare energetics, however. Nevertheless the formation of the visible/UV continuum in a flare, which certainly takes place in the chromosphereor below, dominates flare energy.