Cometary and Solar Plasma Physics
Author : B. Buti
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : B. Buti
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : B. Buti
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789971504489
Author : Ludwig Biermann
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Space plasmas
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Author : Thomas E. Cravens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 1997-09-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521352800
A comprehensive introduction to the ionised gases of the solar-terrestrial environment.
Author : Nicole Meyer-Vernet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139461559
The Sun continually ejects matter into space, blowing a huge bubble of supersonic plasma. This solar wind bathes the whole solar system and shapes all planetary environments. The growth of space technology has considerably increased our knowledge of this medium. This 2007 book presents an introduction to the subject, starting with basic principles and including all the latest advances from space exploration and theory. It contains a short introduction to plasma physics and discusses the structure of the solar interior and atmosphere, the production of solar wind and its perturbations. It explains the objects of the Solar System, from dust to comets and planets, and their interaction with the solar wind. The final sections explore the astrophysical point of view. The topics are treated at various levels of difficulty both qualitatively and quantitatively. This book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in earth and atmospheric sciences, and astrophysics.
Author : Louis J. Lanzerotti
Publisher : North-Holland
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : E.R. Priest
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400954824
In September 1984 a Summer School on Solar System Plasmas was held at Imperial College with the support of the Science and Engineering Research Council. An excellent group of lecturers was assembled to give a series of basic talks on the various aspects of the subject, aimed at Ph. D. students or researchers from related areas wanting to learn about the plasma physics of the solar system. The students were so appreciative of the lectures that it was decided to write them up as the present book. Traditionally, different areas of solar system science, such as solar and magnetospheric physics, have been studied by separate communities with little contact. However, it has become clear that many common themes cut right across these distinct topics, such as magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and waves, magnetic reconnect ion , convection, dynamo activity and particle acceleration. The plasma parameters may well be quite different in the Sun's atmosphere, a cometary tailor Jupiter's magnetosphere, but many of the basic processes are similar and it is by studying them in different environments that we come to understand them more deeply. Furthermore, direct in situ measurements of plasma properties at one point in the solar wind or the magnetosphere complement the more global view by remote sensing of a similar phenomenon at the Sun.
Author : Max Wallis
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
ISBN :
Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 2018-07-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781722215842
Cometary and solar wind data from December 1985 through April 1986 are presented for the purpose of determining the solar wind conditions associated with comet plasma tail disconnection events (DE's). The cometary data are from The International Halley Watch Atlas of Large-Scale Phenomena (Brandt, Niedner, and Rahe, 1992). In addition, we present the kinematic analysis of 4 DE's, those of Dec. 13.5 and 31.2, 1985, and Feb. 21.7 and 28.7, 1986. The circumstances of these DE's clearly illustrate the need to analyze DE's in groups. In situ solar wind measurements from IMP-8, ICE, and PVO were used to construct the variation of solar wind speed, density, and dynamic pressure during this interval. Data from these same spacecraft plus Vega-1 were used to determine the time of 48 current sheet crossings. These data were fitted to heliospheric current sheet curves extrapolated from the corona into the heliosphere in order to determine the best-fit source surface radius for each Carrington rotation. Comparison of the solar wind conditions and 16 DE's in Halley's comet (the four DE's discussed in this paper and 12 DE's in the literature) leaves little doubt that DE's are associated primarily with crossings of the heliospheric current sheet and apparently not with any other property of the solar wind. If we assume that there is a single or primary physical mechanism and that Halley's DE's are representative, efforts at simulation should concentrate on conditions at current sheet crossings. The mechanisms consistent with this result are sunward magnetic reconnection and tailward magnetic reconnection, if tailward reconnection can be triggered by the sector boundary crossing. Brandt, John C. Unspecified Center NAGW-1387...
Author : Buti B
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 1990-07-04
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ISBN : 9814611840