Energy Conversion and Particle Acceleration in the Solar Corona

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Klein, Karl-Ludwig (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 612
• Subjects: Space sciences.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Astrophysics.; Atoms.; Physics.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.; Plasma Physics.

The conversion of energy generated in the Sun's interior creates its hot corona and a wealth of dynamical phenomena such as flares and mass ejections. Based on recent significant progress in understanding magnetic reconnection and a wealth of new observations of energetic particle signatures fr...