Coronal Mass Ejections [electronic resource] /
Kunow, H.editor.
Crooker, N.U.editor.
Linker, J.A.editor.
Schwenn, R.editor.
Von Steiger, R.editor.
It is well known that the Sun gravitationally controls the orbits of planets and minor bodies. Much less known, however, is the domain of plasma fields and charged particles in which the Sun governs a heliosphere out to a distance of about 15 billion kilometers. What forces activates the Sun to maintain this power? Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and their descendants are the troops serving the Sun during high solar activity periods. This volume offers a comprehensive and integrated overview of our present knowledge and understanding of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and their descendants, Interplanetary CMEs (ICMEs). It results from a series of workshops held between 2000 and 2004. An international team of about sixty experimenters involved e.g. in the SOHO, ULYSSES, VOYAGER, PIONEER, HELIOS, WIND, IMP, and ACE missions, ground observers, and theoreticians worked jointly on interpreting the observations and developing new models for CME initiations, development, and interplanetary propagation. The book provides researchers active in space physics with an overview of the current understanding of CMEs and ICMEs, and their effects in the heliosphere. It also provides the advanced graduate student with introductory material on this active field of research.
"Reprinted from Space science reviews, volume 123, nos. 1-3, 2006."
Includes bibliographical references.
A Brief History of CME Science -- Coronal Mass Ejections: Overview of Observations -- In-Situ Solar Wind and Magnetic Field Signatures of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections -- An Introduction to CMEs and Energetic Particles -- An Introduction to Theory and Models of CMEs, Shocks, and Solar Energetic Particles -- An Introduction to the pre-CME Corona -- Solar Imprint on ICMEs, Their Magnetic Connectivity, and Heliospheric Evolution -- ICMEs in the Outer Heliosphere and at High Latitudes: an Introduction -- Coronal Observations of CMEs -- Understanding Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection Signatures -- Energetic Particle Observations -- CME Theory and Models -- The Pre-CME Sun -- Multi-Wavelength Observations of CMEs and Associated Phenomena -- ICMEs in the Inner Heliosphere: Origin, Evolution and Propagation Effects -- ICMEs at High Latitudes and in the Outer Heliosphere -- CME Disturbance Forecasting -- Coronal Mass Ejections.
It is well known that the Sun gravitationally controls the orbits of planets and minor bodies. Much less known, however, is the domain of plasma fields and charged particles in which the Sun governs a heliosphere out to a distance of about 15 billion kilometers. What forces activates the Sun to maintain this power? Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and their descendants are the troops serving the Sun during high solar activity periods. This volume offers a comprehensive and integrated overview of our present knowledge and understanding of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and their descendants, Interplanetary CMEs (ICMEs). It results from a series of workshops held between 2000 and 2004. An international team of about sixty experimenters involved e.g. in the SOHO, ULYSSES, VOYAGER, PIONEER, HELIOS, WIND, IMP, and ACE missions, ground observers, and theoreticians worked jointly on interpreting the observations and developing new models for CME initiations, development, and interplanetary propagation. The book provides researchers active in space physics with an overview of the current understanding of CMEs and ICMEs, and their effects in the heliosphere. It also provides the advanced graduate student with introductory material on this active field of research.
Observations, Astronomical.
Astronomy-Observations.
Astrophysics.
Space sciences.
Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
Astrophysics and Astroparticles.
Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).
Space Sciences Series of ISSI