Self-Organized Criticality in Astrophysics The Statistics of Nonlinear Processes in the Universe /

• Main Author: Aschwanden, Markus (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; Geophysics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Space sciences.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

The concept of ‘self-organized criticality’ (SOC) has been applied to a variety of problems, ranging from population growth and traffic jams to earthquakes, landslides and forest fires. The technique is now being applied to a wide range of phenomena in astrophysics, such as planetary magnetospheres,...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Self-Organized Criticality in the Universe
• 2 Numerical SOC Models
• 3 Statistics of Random Processes
• 4 Time Series Analysis
• 5 Time Scale Distributions
• 6 Waiting Time Distributions
• 7 Occurrence Frequency Distributions
• 8 Fractal Geometry
• 9 Scaling Laws
• 10 Physical SOC Models in Astrophysics.