1. Editorial

   • Cornelis de Jager
   • Zdeněk Švestka
   • Robert F. Howard

   Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: ix - ix

2. Preface

   • Bernhard M. Haisch
   • Marcello Rodonò

   Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 1 - 2

3. An overview of solar and stellar flare research

   • Bernhard M. Haisch

   Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 3 - 18

4. Electron beam as origin of white-light solar flares

   • J. Aboudarham
   • J. C. Henoux

   Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 19 - 30

5. Solar flare spectral diagnosis: Present and future

   • Ester Antonucci

   Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 31 - 60

6. Multi-wavelength observations of stellar flares

   • P. B. Byrne

   Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 61 - 74

7. Solar flares: The impulsive phase

   • Brian R. Dennis
   • Richard A. Schwartz

   Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 75 - 94

8. Electron acceleration in solar flares

   • Wolfgang Dröge
   • Peter Meyer
   • Dan Moses

   Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 95 - 103

9. Models of flaring loops

   • A. Gordon Emslie

   Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 105 - 115

10. Stellar flare spectral diagnotics: Present and future

    • Bernard H. Foing

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 117 - 133

11. Preflare activity

    • V. Gaizauskas

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 135 - 152

12. Simultaneous multi-frequency imaging observations of solar microwave bursts

    • M. R. Kundu
    • S. M. White
    • E. J. Schmahl

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 153 - 161

13. Radio emission from stellar flares

    • Jan Kuijpers

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 163 - 185

14. Solar and stellar magnetic fields and structures: Observations

    • Jeffrey L. Linsky

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 187 - 196

15. The association of flares to cancelling magnetic features on the sun

    • Silvia H. B. Livi
    • Sara Martin
    • Guoxiang Ai

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 197 - 214

16. Mass motions associated with solar flares

    • Sara F. Martin

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 215 - 238

17. Solar and stellar flares: Questions and problems

    • D. J. Mullan

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 239 - 259

18. The importance of solar white-light flares

    • Donald F. Neidig

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 261 - 269

19. Solar and stellar magnetic fields and atmospheric structures: Theory

    • E. N. Parker

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 271 - 288

20. Hydrodynamic models of solar and stellar flares

    • Giovanni Peres

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 289 - 298

21. A review of stellar flares and their characteristics

    • B. R. Pettersen

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 299 - 312

22. Long-duration solar and stellar flares

    • Giannina Poletto

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 313 - 322

23. Solar flares: High-energy radiation and particles

    • Erich Rieger

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 323 - 345

24. Magnetic equilibria and instabilities

    • Takashi Sakurai

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 347 - 360

25. A solar flare observed with the SMM and Einstein satellites

    • J. H. M. M. Schmitt
    • J. R. Lemen
    • D. Zarro

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 361 - 373

26. Stellar flare statistics — Physical consequences

    • N. I. Shakhovskaya

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 375 - 386

27. The role of eruption in solar flares

    • Peter A. Sturrock

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 387 - 397

28. Solar flares: The gradual phase

    • Zdeněk Švestka

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 399 - 417

29. Polarimetry of stellar active regions and flares

    • I. Tuominen
    • J. Huovelin
    • A. G. Shcherbakov

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 419 - 429

30. Particle acceleration in solar flares

    • Loukas Vlahos

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 431 - 447

31. Cyclotron lines in the spectra of solar flares and solar active regions

    • V. V. Zheleznyakov
    • E. Ya. Zlotnik

    Solar and Stellar Flares Pages: 449 - 456

32. Announcement

    Announcement Pages: 459 - 502