Small Scale Energy Release and the Acceleration and Transport of Energetic Particles
Résumé
We report on results presented at the sessions of Working Group~1 at CESRA 2004, which covered the topic area of the title of this paper. The working-group participants are listed in the Appendix, and the topics discussed have been brought together in several general areas of focus. The emphasis on the discussion is from the point of view of radiophysics. We organize the material by presenting new constraints imposed by the recent high-energy and radio observations. We note though that multi-wavelength knowledge is generally vital in understanding all of the phenomena involved. The new constraints include exciting new millimeter-wave discoveries, among others. We then place these observations into the framework of our knowledge of the acceleration and propagation of high-energy particles, and of their radio emission mechanisms. The RHESSI1 results are the most distinctive in this time frame, and they have made possible several new advances.