The Sun as a Guide to Stellar Physics

ISBN-13: 9780128143346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 522 str.

Oddbjorn Engvold; Andrew Skumanich; Jean-Claude Vial

Spis treści

1. A) Discoveries and Concepts: The Sun's Role in Astrophysics   Jack B. Zirker and Oddbjørn Engvold 2. B) Stellar & Solar Chromospheres and Attendant Phenomena   Thomas Ayres 3. C) The Sun's Atmosphere   Alexander I. Shapiro, Hardi Peter, and Sami K. Solanki 4. D) Helioseismic Inferences on the Internal  Structure and Dynamics of the Sun   Sarbani Basu and William J. Chaplin 5. E) Atmospheric Structure, Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Magnetism 5.1 Spectroscopy and Atomic Physics   Philip Judge 5.2 Models of Solar and Stellar Atmospheres   Petr Heinzel 5.3 Spectropolarimetry, Magnetic Structures & Their Evolution   Kiyoshi Ichimoto 6. F) Coronal Magnetism as a Universal Phenomenon   BC Low 7. G) MHD and Solar Dynamo Action   Eric Priest 8. H) Solar and Stellar Variability   Marianne Faurobert 9. I) High-Energy Solar Physics   Hugh Hudson and Alexander MacKinnon 10. J) Space Weather at Earth and in Our Solar System   Noé Lugaz 11. K) Solar-Stellar Connection   Gibor Basri 12. L) Instrumentation 12.1 Observations of the Sun from Space   Alan Title 12.2 High-Resolution Ground-Based Observations of the Sun   Oddbjørn Engvold and Jack Zirker 13. M) Solar Data and Simulations   Neal Hurlburt 14. N) Challenges and Prospects for the Future   Jean-Claude Vial and Andrew Skumanich