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Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulenceby Dieter Biskamp
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 51.00This book presents an introduction to, and state-of-the-art account of, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Applications to three topics from astrophysics are considered: the solar wind, accretion disks, and the interstellar medium. Suitable for graduate students and researchers working in turbulence theory, plasma physics and astrophysics. more...
Blowing Bubbles in the Cosmosby T. W. Hartquist; J. E. Dyson; D. P. Ruffle
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 45.00Many astrophysical bodies produce winds, jets or explosions, which blow bubbles. From a nonmathematical perspective, based on the understanding of bubbles, this book addresses various topics in astrophysics including supernovae, the production of structure in the Early Universe, the environments of supermassive black holes and gamma-ray bursts. more...
Basics of the Solar Windby Nicole Meyer-Vernet
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 140.00Introduction to solar wind for researchers and graduate students in atmospheric physics and astrophysics. more...
Physics of the Solar Coronaby Markus J. Aschwanden
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 109.00Based on spacecraft observations, this book provides an introduction to solar physics. It introduces the solar corona, which has a temperature of several million degrees, and sets it in the context of basic plasma physics. It also describes spectacular phenomena, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections and their effects on the Earth. more...
The Outer Heliosphereby E. Marsch; H.-J. Fahr; K. Scherer; H. Fichtner
Elsevier 2001; US$ 255.00The eleventh COSPAR colloquium The Outer Heliosphere: The Next Frontiers was held in Potsdam, Germany, from 24-28 July, 2000, and is the second dedicated to this subject after the first one held in Warsaw, Poland in 1989. Roughly a century has passed after the first ideas by Oliver Lodge, George Francis Fitzgerald and Kristan Birkeland about particle clouds emanating from the Sun and interacting with the Earth environment. Only a few decades after the formulation of the concepts of a continuous solar corpuscular radiation by Ludwig Bierman and a solar wind by Eugene Parker, heliospheric physics has evolved into an important branch of astrophysical research. Numerous spacecraft missions have increased the knowledge about the heliosphere tremendously.... more...
The Heliosphere Through the Solar Activity Cycleby Andre Balogh; Louis J. Lanzerotti; S.T. Suess
Springer 2007; US$ 169.00Understanding how the Sun changes though its 11-year sunspot cycle and how these changes affect the vast space around the Sun ??? the heliosphere ??? has been one of the principal objectives of space research since the advent of the space age. This book presents the evolution of the heliosphere through an entire solar activity cycle. The last solar cycle (cycle 23) has been the best observed from both the Earth and from a fleet of spacecraft. Of these, the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses probe has provided continuous observations of the state of the heliosphere since 1990 from a unique vantage point, that of a nearly polar orbit around the Sun. Ulysses??? results affect our understanding of the heliosphere from the interior of the Sun to the interstellar... more...
Solar Dynamics and Its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earthby D.N. Baker; B. Klecker; S.J. Schwartz; R. Schwenn; Rudolf von Steiger
Springer 2007; US$ 175.00The SOHO and Cluster missions form a single ESA cornerstone. Yet they observe very different regions in our solar system: the solar atmosphere on one hand and the Earth??'s magnetosphere on the other. At the same time the Ulysses mission provides observations in the third dimension of the heliosphere, and many others add to the picture from the Lagrangian point L1 to the edge of the heliosphere. It is the aim of this ISSI volume to tie these observations together in addressing the topic of Solar Dynamics and its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earth, thus contributing to the International Living With a Star (ILWS) program. The volume starts out with an assessment and description of the reasons for solar dynamics and how it couples into the... more...
Coronal Mass Ejectionsby H. Kunow; N.U. Crooker; J.A. Linker; R. Schwenn; R. Von Steiger
Springer 2007; US$ 195.00Offers a comprehensive and integrated overview of our present knowledge and understanding of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and their descendants, Interplanetary CMEs (ICMEs). This book is intended to provide scientists active in space physics research with an understanding of CMEs and ICMEs and their effects in the heliosphere. more...
The STEREO Missionby Christopher Russell
Springer 2008; US$ 239.00The STEREO mission uses twin heliospheric orbiters to track solar disturbances from their initiation to 1 AU. This book documents the mission, its objectives, the spacecraft that execute it and the instruments that provide the measurements, both remote sensing and in situ. This mission promises to unlock many of the mysteries of how the Sun produces what has become to be known as space weather. more...
From the Outer Heliosphere to the Local Bubbleby Jeffrey L. Linsky; Eberhard Mobius; Vladislav Izmodenov; Rudolf von Steiger
Springer 2009; US$ 179.00Knowledge about the outer heliosphere and the interstellar medium, which were long treated as two separate fields, has improved dramatically over the years. This volume provides a synopsis of these developments organised into seven sections. It concludes with four papers providing the 'big picture'. more...









