Plasma Astrophysics - Arnold O. Benz

Plasma Astrophysics

Kinetic Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
309 Seiten
2014 | 2nd ed. 2002. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2002
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-017-5088-2 (ISBN)
160,49 inkl. MwSt
This textbook is intended as an introduction to the physics of solar and stellar coronae, emphasizing kinetic plasma processes. Some of the most persistent problems of solar physics, like coronal heating, shock waves, flare energy release, and particle acceleration, are likely to be at least partially related to such p- cesses.
This textbook is intended as an introduction to the physics of solar and stellar coronae, emphasizing kinetic plasma processes. It is addressed to observational astronomers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates without a ba- ground in plasma physics. Coronal physics is today a vast field with many different aims and goals. So- ing out the really important aspects of an observed phenomenon and using the physics best suited for the case is a formidable problem. There are already several excellent books, oriented toward the interests of astrophysicists, that deal with the magnetohydrodynamics of stellar atmospheres, radiation transport, and radiation theory. In kinetic processes, the different particle velocities play an important role. This is the case when particle collisions can be neglected, for example in very brief phenomena – such as one period of a high-frequency wave – or in effects produced by energetic particles with very long collision times. Some of the most persistent problems of solar physics, like coronal heating, shock waves, flare energy release, and particle acceleration, are likely to be at least partially related to such p- cesses. Study of the Sun is not regarded here as an end in itself, but as the source of information for more general stellar applications. Our understanding of stellar processes relies heavily, in turn, on our understanding of solar processes. Thus an introduction to what is happening in hot, dilute coronae necessarily starts with the plasma physics of our nearest star.

Basic Concepts.- Magnetohydrodynamics.- Waves in a Cold, Collisionless Plasma.- Kinetic Plasma and Particle Beams.- Astrophysical Electron Beams.- Ion Beams and Electromagnetic Instabilities.- Electrons Trapped in Magnetic Fields.- Electric Currents.- Collisionless Shock Waves.- Propagation of Radiation.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.4.2014
Reihe/Serie Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 279
Zusatzinfo 45 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 309 p. 45 illus.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Plasmaphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Theoretische Physik
ISBN-10 94-017-5088-2 / 9401750882
ISBN-13 978-94-017-5088-2 / 9789401750882
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