Plasma Astrophysics Kinetic Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae /

• Main Author: Benz, Arnold O. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 279
• Subjects: Physics.; Planetology.; Astrophysics.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Plasma Physics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.

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 w...

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.