Solar History An Introduction /

• Main Author: Vita-Finzi, Claudio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Astronomy,
• Subjects: Physics.; Planetology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Geophysics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.

Beyond the four centuries of sunspot observation and the five decades during which artificial satellites have monitored the Sun – that is to say for 99.99999% of the Sun’s existence – our knowledge of solar history depends largely on analogy with kindred main sequence stars, on the outcome of variou...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Origins.- 3. The young Sun.- 4. Isotopes and ice cores
• 5. Cosmogenic radiocarbon
• 6. The solar cycle.- 7. Solar  rotation
• 8. Contemporary history
• 9. The Lessons of History
• Index.