Fragmented Energy Release in Sun and Stars: the Interface Between Mhd and Plasma Physics Reprinted from Space Science Reviews, 68:1-4, 1994 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: 1 Energy Release Processes.- Coronal Heating by Dissipation of Magnetic Structure.- Reconnective Release of Magnetic Energy in Astrophysical Plasmas.- Energy Release in Double Layers.- Theory of Fragmented Energy Release in the Sun.- Alfven Wave Heating.- Low Frequency Turbulence and Energy Dissipation in the Solar Wind.- Dynamic Behavior and Topology of 3D Magnetic Fields.- Detailed Magnetic Structure and Stochastic Threshold.- Current Dissipation within the Chromosphere-Corona Transition.- Spatial Fragmentation of Solar Flare Plasma and Beams.- Nanoflares and Current Sheet Dissipation.- 3D Nonlinear Wave Heating of Coronal Loops.- Nonlinear Dust Alfven Modes.- The Role of Vorticity in 3D Magnetic Field Annihilation.- Particle Orbits near a Neutral Point.- Electron Beam Propagation in the Solar Corona.- MHD Waves in Coronal Flux Tubes.- Heating of the Solar Corona by Alfven Wave Envelopes.- Observational Support of Reconnection in Solar Flares.- Studies of Anomalous Potential Drops Due to Ion Density Inhomogeneities.- 2 Fragmented Solar Emission.- Observations of Fragmented Energy Release.- Imaging Diagnostics of Solar Non-Thermal Particles.- Cyclotron Masers and Solar Spike Bursts.- Chaos Theory and Radio Emission.- On Deterministic Chaos, Stationarity Periodicity and Intermittency in Coronal Bursts and Flares.- Periodic or Random Acceleration in Solar Flares?.- Radio Emission from Quasi-parallel Shock Waves in the Corona.- Microwave Bursts of November 17, 1991: Evidence of Fragmented Particle Injection into a Coronal Loop.- Evidence for a Common Source of Fragmented Decimeter Emission and Meter Wave Type II Bursts in Some Solar Type IV Bursts.- Thermal and Nonthermal Flare Emission Observed with the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph.- Thermal Cyclotron Radiation from a Hot Coronal Loop with Helical Magnetic Field.- Fine Scale Temporal Structures in Solar Hard X-ray Bursts Observed by PHEBUS.- Modelling Particle Transport with Stochastic Simulations.- Transition Radio Emission of Mildly Relativistic Particles.- Analysis of Solar Spike Events by Means of Symbolic Dynamics Methods.- Multiple Frequency Spike Emission During Solar Flares.- Radio Evidence of Long Lasting Release of Nonthermal Energy in the Solar Corona.- SSRT: First Results of Millisecond Spike Observations.- Discrete Energy Release in Microwave Emission in the Preflare Stage.- Microwave Spectrum Analysis as Solar Energy Release Diagnostics.- 3 Stars.- Stellar Flares.- Radiation-Driven Diskons: an Overview.- First Millimetric Detections of AE Aquarii.- Variability and Origin of Permanent Radio Emission in RS CVn and Algol Type Binaries.- 4 Stellar and Galactic Accretion Disks.- Energy Release in Stellar Magnetospheres.- Magnetic Energy Release near Accreting Black Holes.- Dissipation of Magnetic Fields in Active Galactic Nuclei.- Distribution and Flow of Magnetic Energy in an Accretion Disk.- Slender Fluxtubes in Accretion Disks.- A Magnetic Explanation for the Rapid Burster.- 5 Pulsars.- Electric Gaps in Pulsar Magnetospheres.- Radiative Properties of Pulsar Magnetospheres.- Pulsar Radio Emission.- Pair Creation in Double Layers.- Linear Acceleration Emission in a Strong Electric Field.- Closing Lecture.- Closing Address.- Author index."