Sredi razlichnykh proyavleniy solnechnoy aktivnosti naibol'shiy interes vyzyvayut nestatsionarnye solnechnye yavleniya, v chastnosti, solnechnye vspyshki. Za poslednie desyatiletiya opublikovano bol'shoe kolichestvo rabot, posvyashchennykh issledovaniyu solnechnykh vspyshek, v osobennosti krupnykh vspyshechnykh sobytiy, t.e. sobytiy s obshchim energovydeleniem do 10 v 32 stepeni erg. Eto svyazano, vo-pervykh, s bol'shim vliyaniem etikh yavleniy na oklozemnoe kosmicheskoe prostranstvo, a vo-vtorykh s tem, chto nekotorye kharakteristiki krupnykh vspyshek prosto legche opredelit' po sravneniyu so vspyshkami bolee malykh ballov. Odnako, s razvitiem tekhnicheskoy bazy, s nakopleniem eksperimental'nogo materiala, poyavilas' neobkhodimost' bolee glubokogo issledovaniya vspyshechnykh sobytiy maloy moshchnosti. Na etom puti mozhno ozhidat' novykh rezul'tatov kak v fizike samikh solnechnykh vspyshek, tak i v nekotorykh ochen' vazhnykh smezhnykh problemakh, naprimer v probleme nagreva solnechnoy korony. Tsel'yu dannoy raboty yavlyaetsya izuchenie kharakteristik solnechnykh vspyshek maloy moshchnosti, ikh mesta v mekhanizme solnechnoy aktivnosti, a takzhe ikh roli v protsessakh nagrevaniya plazmy v solnechnoy korone.
