Hot Thin Plasmas in Astrophysics

ISBN-13: 9789401078788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 434 str.

R. Pallavicini

Opis

This volume contains all but one of the lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on HOI Thin Plasmas in Astrophysics held in Cargese, Corsica, from September 8 to 18, 1987. The meeting was planned in collaboration with the members of the Scientific Organizing Committee, 10 whom I am grateful for suggesting a comprehensive and well balanced program. The SOC was comprised of Prof. J. Bleeker (Space Research Institute. Utrecht, The Netherlands), Dr. C. Cesarsky (CEN Saclay, France), Dr. R. Mushotzky (GSFC, USA), Prof. K. Pounds (University of Leicester, UK), Prof. H. Schnopper (Danish Space Research Laboratory, Denmark), Dr. H. Tananbaum (Center for Astrophysics, USA), Dr. G. Trinchieri (Arcetri Observatory, Italy), and Prof. 1. Truemper (MPE, Garching, Germany). The ASI, fully supported by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division, was organized with the intent of providing a critical and up-to-date overview of our present kowledge and understanding of the properties of hot thin plasmas in astrophysics as they are revealed by X-ray observations from space. The X-ray and UV emission from optically thin thermal plasmas is a common feature of many astrophysical systems. This type of emission occurs in the solar corona and in the coronae of other stars, in supernova remnants and in the hot interstellar medium, in normal galaxies and galactic halos, and in the intergalactic gas in clusters.

Spis treści

1. Radiative Processes.- Radiation from Hot, Thin Plasmas.- Diagnostic Techniques for Hot Thin Astrophysical Plasmas.- 2. X-Ray Instrumentation.- Instrumentation for the Study of Cosmic X-Ray Plasmas.- Systematic Errors in the Determination of X-Ray Spectrum Parameters and the Calibration of Space Experiments.- 3. Solar and Stellar Coronae.- The Solar Corona.- Ultraviolet Stellar Spectroscopy.- X-Ray Emission from Normal Stars.- Some Exos at Results on Stellar Coronae.- The Magnetic Fields on Cool Stars and Their Correlation with Chromospheric and Coronal Emission.- Re-Analysis of the Coronal Emission from Rs Cvn Type Binaries.- 4. Related Optically-Thick Stellar Sources.- High Resolution Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy of Hot White Dwarfs.- Pulsating White Dwarfs.- Radiation from Gas Envelopes around Be Stars.- 5. Supernova Remnants and the Hot Interstellar Medium.- X-Ray Observations of Hot Thin Plasma in Supernova Remnants.- The Hot Interstellar Medium: Observations.- Theory of Supernova Remnants and the Hot Interstellar Medium.- 6. Galaxies and Galactic Halos.- Observations of Galaxies and Galactic Halos.- A Theoretical Understanding of Hot Gas around Galaxies.- Ram Pressure Stripping and Galactic Fountains.- 7. Clusters of Galaxies.- X-Ray Observations of Clusters of Galaxies.- Theory of Intracluster Gas.- Intergalactic Plasma in Clusters: Evolution.- Exosat Observations of the Virgo Cluster.- 8. Future X-Ray Missions.- First Results from Ginga.- The Rosat Mission.- The Wide Held Camera for Rosat: Observing Stars.- The Sax X-Ray Astronomy Mission.- The Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility.- The Xmm Mission.- The Ussr Space Astronomy Programme.- Future Space Astronomy Programme of Japan.