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The Importance of Solar White-Light Flares

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Donald F. Neidig
Donald F. Neidig*
Affiliation:
Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak, National Optical Astronomy Observatories*, Sunspot, NM 88349, U.S.A.

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The basic results of white-light flare (WLF) photometric and spectrographic observations are reviewed. WLFs represent the most extreme density conditions in solar optical flares and are similar to stellar flares in many respects. It is shown that WLFs originate in the low chromosphere and upper photosphere, and that their huge radiative losses remain difficult to explain within the context of known mechanisms of energy transport.

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Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 104 , Issue 1: Solar and Stellar Flares , 1989 , pp. 261 - 269
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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