Plasma Astrophysics, Part II

Boris Somov is a professor at the Moscow State University, laureate of the State Prize of the former USSR (the Honor Prize of the USSR Government), and laureate of the IBC Award, “2000 Outstanding People of the 20th Century,” in honor of his contribution to space physics and astrophysics. Five well-known monographs, “Physical Processes in Solar Flares,” “Fundamentals of Cosmic Electrodynamics,” “Cosmic Plasma Physics” and “Plasma Astrophysics, Parts I&II (First Edition)” by Boris Somov were published by Kluwer Academic Publishers and Springer in 1992, 1994, 2000 and 2006, respectively. He has contributed more than 280 articles to the scientific literature in solar physics and plasma astrophysics.

From the Contents: Magnetic Reconnection.- Reconnection in a Strong Magnetic Field.- Evidence of Reconnection in Solar Flares.-  Reconnection in Action.- The Bastille Day 2000 Solar Flare.-  Electric Currents Related to Reconnection.- Models of Reconnecting Current Layers.- Collapsing Magnetic Traps in Solar Flares.-  Solar-type Flares in Laboratory and Space.- Particle Acceleration in Current Layers.