Energy Release in the Solar Corona


Abstract

Energy release in the solar corona drives a wide variety of phenomena, including flares, filament/prominence eruptions, coronal mass ejections, solar particle events, as well as coronal heating and the solar wind. The basic physics of these phenomena and their relationship to each other remains a vigorous area of inquiry. The Working Group on Energy Release at Mont Evray directed its attention to recent observational and theoretical developments relevant to flares and coronal heating. Particular attention was given to the ``fragmentation'' of energy release in solar flares and its interpretation; to the statistics of the flare phenomenon and whether they can be understood in terms of ``driven dissipative systems''; to quasi-steady energy release and the problem of coronal heating; and to recent observations of flares and related phenomena.