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Title Details:
Solar and Space Physics
Authors: Alissandrakis, Constantine
Nintos, Alexandros
Patsourakos, Spyros
Reviewer: Vlachos, Loukas
Subject: NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Keywords:
Sun
Solar Atmosphre
Solar Magnetic Field
Solar Activity
Solar Energetic Phenomena
The Solar Wind
Space Weather
Planetary Magnetospheres
Solar-terrestrial Relations
Description:
Abstract:
This textbook, at the advanced undergraduate/introductory graduate level, follows a unified approach to the physics of the Sun and the physics of interplanetary space, both because they are governed by the same principles and because they constitute a unified system, the heliosphere. Moreover, we have attempted a balanced presentation of observational and theoretical issues, as well as of aspects related to the radiation and the plasma, and, as far as observations are concerned, a balanced presentation of information obtained from the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from long radio wavelengths to hard X-rays, as well as information from in situ measurements. After a brief introduction, we analyze the basic tools that allow us to extract information about the physical conditions on the sun from the electromagnetic radiation it emits. We next describe the sun and the solar wind as a system with spherical symmetry, ignoring the horizontal variation of the physical parameters. A brief discussion of the physics of the solar interior follows and, after that, we pass on to some basic aspects of plasma physics, pertinent to the sun, including the interaction of the plasma with the magnetic field. We are thus ready to proceed with the discussion of the three-dimensional structure of the heliosphere. Explosive events are next, followed by the solar cycle. The last two chapters are devoted to the effects of solar phenomena in interplanetary space and the interaction with the terrestrial and planetary magnetospheres. The book concludes with four appendices, including an extended one on solar observations, bibliography and a list of site addresses.
Technical Editors: Kouloumvakos, Athanasios
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
ISBN 978-960-603-430-5
License: Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-485
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/5516
Bibliographic Reference: Alissandrakis, C., Nintos, A., & Patsourakos, S. (2015). Solar and Space Physics [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-485
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Introduction
2. Diagnostics of the solar plasma
3. One-dimensional models of the solar atmosphere and the heliosphere
4. The solar interior
5. Interaction of the solar plasma with the magnetic field
6. Magnetic reconnection
7. Wave phenomena in plasma
8. Three-dimensional structure of the Sun and the heliosphere
9. Explosive phenomena in the solar atmosphere
10. The solar activity cycle
11. Coronal mass ejections and energetic particles in the interplanetary space
12. Effects on the terrestrial and planetary magnetospheres
Number of pages 353
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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