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Description:
The community of European Solar Radio Astronomers (CESRA) organizes workshops on
investigations of the solar atmosphere using radio and other observations. These workshops are
intended to bring together different communities of observers and theoreticians in order to
discuss current problems of the structure and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, its impact on,
and relationship with the heliosphere. Although special emphasis is given to radio
diagnostics, the workshop topics are of interest to a large community of plasma
astrophysicists.
The explosive conversion of magnetically stored energy is believed to create the variations of the raditative output of the solar atmosphere, and at least part of the flux of mass, momentum, and energy into interplanetary space. While compelling evidence exists that some form of magnetic reconnection is the basic process, it is still unclear how it operates, to which extent energy can be stored, what triggers its eventual explosive release, and how suprathermal particle populations are created during this process, sometimes up to relativistic energies.
The Ringberg workshop will focus on two broad topics:
energy release processes in the weakly collisional coronal plasma, with emphasis on recent developments in the understanding of magnetic reconnection and constraints especially from radio observations; acceleration and propagation of energetic charged particles in the light of new joint ground-based and spaceborne analyses at solar maximum.
Date received: December 20, 2000
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