C. J. Schrijver, C. Zwaan

Solar and Stellar Magnetic Activity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive review and synthesis of current understanding of magnetic fields in the Sun and similar stars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 695g
• ISBN-13: 9780521739863
• ISBN-10: 0521739861
• Artikelnr.: 24928370

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: solar features and terminology
2. Stellar structure
3. Solar rotation and meridional flow
4. Solar magnetic structure
5. Solar magnetic configurations
6. Global properties of the solar magnetic field
7. The solar dynamo
8. The solar outer atmosphere
9. Stellar outer atmospheres
10. Mechanisms of outer-atmospheric heating
11. Activity and stellar properties
12. Stellar magnetic phenomena
13. Activity and rotation on evolutionary time scales
14. Activity in binary stars
15. Propositions on stellar dynamos
Appendix I: unit conversions
Index.