Fragmented energy release in sun and stars
Subtitle: the interface between MHD and plasma physics : proceedings of a workshop on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Astronomical Institute Utrecht, held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, 18-21 October 1993
By: edited by G.H.J. van den Oord
Publisher: Springer Science
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9789401044417; 9789401110143
Subjects: Space plasmas; Congresses; Stars; Magnetic fields; Magnetohydrodynamics; Energy dissipation; Solar magnetic fields
Description: Magnetic energy release plays an important role in a wide variety of cosmic objects such as the Sun, stellar coronae, stellar and galactic accretion disks and pulsars. The observed radio, X-ray and gamma-ray emission often directly results from magnetic `flares', implying that these processes are spatially fragmented and of an impulsive nature. A true understanding of these processes requires a combined magnetohydrodynamical and plasma physical approach. Fragmented Energy Release in Sun and Stars: the Interface between MHD and Plasma Physics provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary summary of magnetic energy release in the Sun and stars, in accretion disks, in pulsar magnetospheres and in laboratory plasmas. These proceedings include papers on both theoretical and observational aspects. Fragmented Energy Release in Sun and Stars: the Interface between MHD and Plasma Physics is for researchers in the fields of solar physics, stellar astrophysics and (laboratory) plasma physics and is a useful resource book for graduate level astrophysics courses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.