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  title info:
    title: Plasma Astrophysics
    sub title: Kinetic Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae
  name:
    name part: Benz, Arnold O.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2002
    edition: Second Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 309 p. 45 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This textbook is intended as an introduction to the physics of solar and stellar coronae, emphasizing kinetic plasma processes. It is addressed to observational astronomers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates without a ba- ground in plasma physics. Coronal physics is today a vast field with many different aims and goals. So- ing out the really important aspects of an observed phenomenon and using the physics best suited for the case is a formidable problem. There are already several excellent books, oriented toward the interests of astrophysicists, that deal with the magnetohydrodynamics of stellar atmospheres, radiation transport, and radiation theory. In kinetic processes, the different particle velocities play an important role. This is the case when particle collisions can be neglected, for example in very brief phenomena – such as one period of a high-frequency wave – or in effects produced by energetic particles with very long collision times. Some of the most persistent problems of solar physics, like coronal heating, shock waves, flare energy release, and particle acceleration, are likely to be at least partially related to such p- cesses. Study of the Sun is not regarded here as an end in itself, but as the source of information for more general stellar applications. Our understanding of stellar processes relies heavily, in turn, on our understanding of solar processes. Thus an introduction to what is happening in hot, dilute coronae necessarily starts with the plasma physics of our nearest star.
  table of contents: Basic Concepts -- Magnetohydrodynamics -- Waves in a Cold, Collisionless Plasma -- Kinetic Plasma and Particle Beams -- Astrophysical Electron Beams -- Ion Beams and Electromagnetic Instabilities -- Electrons Trapped in Magnetic Fields -- Electric Currents -- Collisionless Shock Waves -- Propagation of Radiation.
  note: by Arnold O. Benz.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear physics
  subject:
    topic: Heavy ions
  subject:
    topic: Hadrons
  subject:
    topic: Plasma (Ionized gases)
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Plasma Physics
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics and Astroparticles
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons
  classification: QC717.6-718.8
  classification: 530.44
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 279
  identifier: 9780306477195
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47719-X
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204143853.0
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