We present an overview of solar flares and associated phenomena, drawing upon a wide
range of observational data primarily from the RHESSI era. Following an introductory …

This review highlights current theoretical research on eruptive phenomena in the solar
atmosphere. We start by looking back upon the early theories and their development. Any …

Solar flares are often accompanied by filament/prominence eruptions (~ 104 K and~ 1010−
11 cm− 3), sometimes leading to coronal mass ejections that directly affect the Earth's …

The main challenge for the theory of solar eruptions has been to understand two basic
aspects of large flares. These are the cause of the flare itself and the nature of the …

Few phenomena have stirred the imaginations of solar scientists as much as the explosive
energy of solar flares. In The Physics of Solar Flares, first published in 1988, Einar Tandberg …

Context. The standard CSHKP model for eruptive flares is two-dimensional. Yet
observational interpretations of photospheric currents in pre-eruptive sigmoids, shear in post …

Flare ribbons are commonly attributed to the low-altitude impact, along the footprints of
separatrices or quasi-separatrix layers (QSLs), of particle beams accelerated through …

Context. Solar flares strongly affect the Sun's atmosphere as well as the Earth's environment.
Quantifying the maximum possible energy of solar flares of the present-day Sun, if any, is …

Solar flares are very complex electromagnetic phenomena of a cataclysmic nature. Particles
are accelerated to very high velocities and a variety of physical processes happen inside …

We present for the first time the evolution of the photospheric electric currents during an
eruptive X-class flare, accurately predicted by the standard three-dimensional (3D) flare …