The Environments of the Sun and the Stars

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rozelot, Jean-Pierre (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Neiner, Coralie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Lecture Notes in Physics, 857
• Θέματα: Physics.; Planetology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astrophysics.; Space sciences.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

Based on lectures given at a CNRS summer school in France, this book covers many aspects of stellar environments (both observational and theoretical) and offers a broad overview of the field. More specifically, Part I of the book focuses on the Sun, the properties of the ejected plasma, of the solar...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: Rezeau: Discontinuities and turbulence in the solar wind
• Vial: Nature and variability of plasmas ejected by the Sun
• Georgieva: Space weather and space climate
• Part II: Mathis: Tides in planetary systems: a physical picture
• Millour: Interactions in massive binary stars as seen by interferometry
• Part III: Malbet: Very close environments of young stars
•  Alecian: An Introduction to Accretion Disks
• ud-Doula: Stellar Winds, Magnetic Fields and Disks
• Petit: Magnetic field and convection in the cool supergiant Betelgeuse
• Chesneau: The formation of circumstellar disks around evolved stars.