Cosmic Plasma Physics: Proceedings of the Conference on Cosmic Plasma Physics Held at the European Space Research Institute (Esrin), Frascati

ISBN-13: 9781461567608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 370 str.

Karl Schindler

Opis

The plan to hold a conference on cosmic plasma physics originated in the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society, whose chairman, B. Lehnert, took the first steps towards its realization. - ESRIN readily adopted this idea, and preliminary contacts with a number of other groups showed that there was a good deal of interest in bringing to gether people working in different areas of the field of cosmic plasma physics. It was clearly felt that an exchange of views and experience, and an attempt to define problem areas, would be profitable. In this spirit a programme was de vised which covered a large variety of topics, ranging from ionospheric to galactic structures. A diversified programme of this kind runs the risk that the communication between the various fields of specialization remains insufficient. It was gratifying to find that within the wide field of cosmic plasma physics a lively dialogue was in fact possible. The Conference was sponsored by the European Physical Society. Financial support was provided by ESRO. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the excellent suggestions of the programme committee members L. Biermann, N. D'Angelo, R. Gendrin, and B. Lehnert. I should like to thank my colleagues B. Bertotti, K. Lackner, and J.F. McKenzie, and numerous other ESRIN staff members, for their valuable help. I feel particularly indebted to the conference secretary, Miss Sachs, who did the real work while I just signed the letters."

Spis treści

Relations between cosmic and laboratory plasma physics (IS).- Planetary Environments.- Magnetospheric substorms (IS).- Parametric instabilities generated in the ionosphere by intense radio waves (C).- Study of a Jovian plasmasphere and the occurrence of Jupiter radiobursts (C).- Effect of a large amplitude wave packet and second order resonance on the stimulation of VLF emissions (C).- Universal instability associated with the plasmapause and its role in geomagnetic micropulsations (C).- Deformation and striation of barium clouds in the ionosphere (C).- Solar Wind.- Thermal energy transport in the solar wind (IS).- The solar wind near the sun: the solar envelope (IT).- Influence of neutral interstellar matter on the expansion of the solar wind (C).- Hydrogen-helium expansion from the sun (C).- Heating of the solar wind ions (C).- On the generation of shock pairs in the solar wind (C).- Spectral anisotropy of Alfvén waves in the solar wind (C).- Evidence for waves and/or turbulence in the vicinity of shocks in space (C).- Solar Wind Interaction with Planets and Comets.- Comets in the solar wind (IT).- Comet-like interaction of Venus with the solar wind (C).- Laboratory experiments on the interaction between a plasma and a neutral gas (IT).- Wave motion in type I comet tails (C).- Solar Physics.- Divers solar rotations (IS).- Soft x-ray spectral studies of solar flare plasmas (C).- Similarities between solar flares and laboratory hot plasma phenomena (C).- Gyromagnetic radiation from bunched electrons (C).- Observations of coronal magnetic field strengths and flux tubes and their stability (C).- Stellar and Interstellar Plasma.- The dynamical behavior of the interstellar gas, fields and cosmic rays (IS).- Stellar magnetohydrodynamics (IS).- Plasma turbulent heating and thermal x-ray sources (IS).- Pulsars.- Radio and optical observations of pulsars (IS).- Propagation of relativistic electromagnetic waves in a plasma (C).- A three-dimensional relativistic computation for the pulsar magnetosphere (C).- On the origin of pulsar radiation (IS).- Strong magnetic field effects in the pulsar crusts and atmospheres (C).- General Theory.- Cosmic ray spectrum and plasma turbulence (IS).- The properties of magnetic neutral sheet systems (IT).- Field line motion in the presence of finite conductivity (C).- Shock Waves, Turbulence.- Collisionless shocks (IS).- Non-linear evolution of firehose-unstable Alfvén waves (C).- Resonant diffusion in strongly turbulent plasmas (C).- The structure of the earth’s bow shock (C).- Experimental study of electron and ion heating in high-? perpendicular collisionless shock waves (C).- Nonlinear theory of cross-field and two-stream instabilities in the equatorial electrojet (C).- Cosmic Rays.- Fermi acceleration in interplanetary space (C).- The galactic cosmic ray diurnal variation as a streaming plasma interaction between galactic and solar corpuscular radiation (C).- The interplanetary conditions associated with cosmic ray Forbush decreases (C).- The diurnal effect of cosmic rays and its dependence on the interplanetary magnetic field (C).