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Fundamentals Of Solar Astronomyby Arvind Bhatnagar; William Livingston
World Scientific 2005; US$ 75.40There are several textbooks available on solar astronomy which deal with advanced astrophysical aspects of solar physics, and books which provide very elementary knowledge about the Sun. This book will help to bridge the gap. It aims to stimulate interest in solar astronomy, presenting at one place the basic methods and techniques used in the field, together with the latest findings and the excitement in solar physics. As solar astronomy is becoming very popular among amateur astronomers and laymen, the book provides the practical knowledge to build simple solar telescopes and other equipment for making solar observations. Amateur astronomers have made important contributions to solar astronomy, and this book will help to guide them in their... 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...
Hutchinson Trends in Science - Astronomyby Helicon Publishing
Helicon Publishing 2006; US$ 29.66Overview of the development of astronomy in the 20th century. 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...
Solar Activity and Earth's Climateby Rasmus E. Benestad
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 179.00Introduces the subject of solar activity and the connection with Earth's climate. This book commences with a review of the historical progress on the understanding of the solar-terrestrial connection and moves on to an objective scrutiny of the various hypothesis. It focuses on how knowledge about the solar cycle and Earth's climate is obtained. 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...
Solar Journeyby P.C. Frisch
Springer 2006; US$ 219.00Lays the foundation for a study of the influence of interstellar material on the solar system and Earth as we travel through the Milky Way Galaxy. Topics include the interaction between the solar wind and interstellar dust and gas, cosmic ray modulation, magnetospheres, temporal variations in the solar environment, and more. more...
Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamicsby P. Martens; D. Cauffman
Elsevier 2002; US$ 270.00These are the Proceedings of the Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting, a COSPAR Colloquium held in Kona, Hawaii, USA, on January 20-24, 2002. The title of the meeting was Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics. In these proceedings the many and varied advances of the dynamics solar atmosphere in the past ten years of observations by Yohkoh have been reviewed. 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...









