Monday

Solar flares and CMEs have close relationships, possibly representing
different symptoms of the same "magnetic disease" (Harrison, 2003).
This is of particular interest considering the fossil record in the
solar system, which has measures of CMEs but not flares. These may
guide us to the occurrence of "superflares" on time scales beyond
those of recorded history. Can the paradigms we see in the solar
case be transported to the stars, where we do see superflares? If
so, we would have a more direct understanding of particle acceleration
in environments for which we now have only the astronomers' tools
for remote sensing, rather than direct in-situ sampling. This talk
will describe the general situation and then focus on methods for
proxy CME detection in remote stars.