Solar and Stellar Flares: Observations, Simulations, and Synergies

Preface.- Svestka's Research Then and Now.- Extreme Ultra-Violet Spectroscopy of the Lower Solar Atmosphere During Solar Flares (Invited Review).- From Coronal Observations to MHD Simulations, the Building Blocks for 3D Models of Solar Flares (Invited Review).- Flare-CME Models: An Observational Perspective (Invited Review).- New Insights into White-Light Flare Emission from Radiative-Hydrodynamic Modeling of a Chromospheric Condensation.- Mg ii Lines Observed During the X-class Flare on 29 March 2014 by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph.- Ionisation Equilibrium for the Non-Maxwellian Electron 
l; word-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; nn -Distributions in Solar Flares: Updated Calculations.- Particle Acceleration and Plasma Heating in the Chromosphere.- Impulsive Heating of Solar Flare Ribbons Above 10 MK.- Temperature Dependence of the Flare Fluence Scaling Exponent.- Flare Hybrids.- Soft X-Ray Pulsations in Solar Flares.- Triggering an Eruptive Flare by Emerging Flux in a Solar Active-Region Complex.- The Origin of Superflares on G-Type Dwarf Stars of Various Ages.- X-ray Flare Spectra from the DIOGENESS Spectrometer and Its Concept Applied to ChemiX on the Interhelioprobe Spacecraft.

Prof. Petr Heinzel is leading scientist at the Czech Academy of Sciences and full professor at Charles University in Prague. He was the director of the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His research interest is solar physics and astrophysics in general, with focus on non-equilibrium spectroscopy of solar and stellar atmospheres. He was collaborating with Prof. Zdenek Svestka who co-founded the Springers's journal Solar Physics (P. Heinzel is member of the editorial board of this journal). The edited Topical Issue of this journal, reprinted in book form, is dedicated to memory of Z. Svestka (see Preface by the Guest Editors). Prof. Heinzel has received several awards from the Academy of Sciences, Czech Astronomical Society and Wroclaw University in Poland.

Prof. Lyndsay Fletcher is full professor at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her main interest is the solar physics and physics of solar and stellar flares, of which she is an internationally highly recognized expert. Currently she leads the European project FP7 called F-CHROMA, devoted to solar flare research. Together with P. Heinzel, she co-organized an international conference on solar and stellar flares dedicated to Prof. Svestka and the edited Topical Issue of Solar Physics resulted from this meeting.