High-Energy Aspects of Solar Flares

Dr. Emslie is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Professor of Physics & Astronomy, at Western Kentucky University.  Prior to that, he was Associate Vice President for Research, Dean of the Graduate College, and Regents Professor of Physics at Oklahoma State University.  He was at the University of Alabama in Huntsville from 1981 to 2004, starting as an assistant professor of physics, becoming chair of that department and then Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. He is a co-investigator on the NASA Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) mission and has published over 150 scholarly articles in refereed publications.

Preface.- Overview of the Volume.- An Observational Overview of Solar Flares.- Implications of X-ray Observations for Electron Acceleration and Propagation in Solar Flares.- Properties of Energetic Ions in the Solar Atmosphere from Gamma-ray and Neutron Observations.- The Relationship Between Solar Radio and Hard X-ray Emission.- Microflares and the Statistics of X-ray Flares.- Deducing Electron Properties from Hard X-ray Observations.- Recent Advances in Understanding Particle Acceleration Processes in Solar Flares.- Energy Release and Particle Acceleration in Flares: Summary and Future Prospects.- Index.