Title:

    The Sun in X-rays


Leon Golub
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics



Abstract:

Hot magnetized ploasmas are found throughout the universe, but one of the 
only examples that we can study in enough detail to test our theories is 
the solar corona.  This atmosphere serves as a case of interest in itself
and also as the foundation of our understanding in more exotic cases.  We
will review the nature of coronal radiation, and discuss the methods used 
for observation.  The main coronal physics problem areas - heating, structure 
and stability involve the solar magnetic field in fundamental ways, and we 
will discuss the example of coronal mass ejections in some detail.