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Observational Plasma Astrophysics: Five Years of Yohkoh and Beyond by Tetsuya Watanabe,Takeo Kosugi,Alphonse C. Sterling Pdf
Since its launch in 1991, the Yohkoh satellite has been returning unprecedented observations of solar flares and the dynamic solar corona. This book is a collection of papers presented at a meeting held in: Yoyogi, Tokyo, on the occasion of Yohkoh's fifth anniversary of operation. The papers constitute a summary of observations and results over the five years, including contributions based on data from Yohkoh's hard and soft X-ray telescopes and its spectrometer experiments. The five years of data, covering approximately one-half of a solar cycle, reveal a fresh perspective on solar science, with a new picture of solar flares and the active Sun emerging. Also, for the first time there are extensive results from Yohkoh observations of the Sun during the solar minimum period. This wide-ranging volume will be of interest to workers in solar physics and X-ray astronomy. It also contains material appropriate for supplemental reading for graduate students in solar physics.
Plasma Astrophysics, Part II by Boris V. Somov Pdf
This two-part book is devoted to classic fundamentals and current practices and perspectives of modern plasma astrophysics. This second part discusses the physics of magnetic reconnection and flares of electromagnetic origin in space plasmas in the solar system, single and double stars, relativistic objects, accretion disks and their coronae. More than 25% of the text is updated from the first edition, included the additions of new figures, equations and entire sections on topics such as topological triggers for solar flares and the magnetospheric physics problem. This book is aimed at professional researchers in astrophysics, but it will also be useful to graduate students in space sciences, geophysics, applied physics and mathematics, especially those seeking a unified view of plasma physics and fluid mechanics.
Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics by P. Martens,D. Cauffman Pdf
These are the Proceedings of the Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting, a COSPAR Colloquium held in Kona, Hawaii, USA, on January 20-24, 2002. The title of the meeting was Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics. In these proceedings the many and varied advances of the dynamics solar atmosphere in the past ten years of observations by Yohkoh have been reviewed.
Physics of the Solar Corona by Markus Aschwanden Pdf
A thorough introduction to solar physics based on recent spacecraft observations. The author introduces the solar corona and sets it in the context of basic plasma physics before moving on to discuss plasma instabilities and plasma heating processes. The latest results on coronal heating and radiation are presented. Spectacular phenomena such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections are described in detail, together with their potential effects on the Earth.
Turbulence, Waves and Instabilities in the Solar Plasma by R. Erdélyi,K. Petrovay,B. Roberts,Markus Aschwanden Pdf
Significant advances have been made recently in both the theoretical understanding and observation of small-scale turbulence in different layers of the Sun, and in the instabilities that give rise to them. The general development of solar physics, however, has led to such a degree of specialization as to hinder interaction between workers in the field. This book therefore presents studies of different layers and regions of the Sun, but from the same aspect, concentrating on the study of small-scale motions. The main emphasis is on the common theoretical roots of these phenomena, but the book also contains an extensive treatment of the observational aspects.
Searching the Heavens and the Earth by Agustin Udias Pdf
Jesuits established a large number of astronomical, geophysical and meteorological observatories during the 17th and 18th centuries and again during the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world. The history of these observatories has never been published in a complete form. Many early European astronomical observatories were established in Jesuit colleges. During the 17th and 18th centuries Jesuits were the first western scientists to enter into contact with China and India. It was through them that western astronomy was first introduced in these countries. They made early astronomical observations in India and China and they directed for 150 years the Imperial Observatory of Beijing. In the 19th and 20th centuries a new set of observatories were established. Besides astronomy these now included meteorology and geophysics. Jesuits established some of the earliest observatories in Africa, South America and the Far East. Jesuit observatories constitute an often forgotten chapter of the history of these sciences.
The High Energy Solar Corona: Waves, Eruptions, Particles by Karl L. Klein,Alexander L. MacKinnon Pdf
An outgrow of an earlier workshop held by the community of European Solar Radio Astronomers (CESRA), this topical volume collects reviews on the current multiwavelength findings and perspectives from the space missions RHESSI, TRACE and SOTTO. The aspects of solar physics dealt with are particle acceleration during flares, large-scale disturbances, and coronal plasma physics.
Advances in Geosciences is the result of a concerted effort in bringing the latest results and planning activities related to earth and space science in Asia and the international arena. The volume editors are all leading scientists in their research fields covering five sections: Solid Earth (SE), Solar Terrestrial (ST), Planetary Science (PS), Hydrological Science (HS), and Oceans and Atmospheres (OA). The main purpose is to highlight the scientific issues essential to the study of earthquakes, tsunamis, climate change, drought, flood, typhoons, space weathers, and planetary exploration. This volume is abstracted in NASA's Astrophysics Data System: http://ads.harvard.edu Contents:Volume 1: Solid Earth (SE) Source Process of the 2004 Sumatra–Andaman Earthquake (L S XU & Y T Chen)Fuzzy Logic Model for Multi-Reservoir Operation (S Mohan & M A Prasad)Test of Inner Core Super Rotation Using Gravity Variation (W Shen & J Ning)The Earth-Mantle Model Using a Seismogram Analysis on Halmahera Earthquake C112597C with the PMG Observation Station (B J Santosa)GPS Estimate of the Tectonic Activity and Deformation in North China (C Xu & Z Li)Large-Scale Silicic Volcanism — The Result of Thermal Maturation of the Crust (S de Silva et al.)and other papersVolume 2: Solar Terrestrial (ST)Solar Coronal Plumes: Theoretical Concepts and Results (M Cuntz)Observational Study of Solar Magnetic Active Phenomena by Huairou Vector Magnetograph (H Zhang)Sector Boundary Crossings and Geomagnetic Activities (S Watari & T Watanabe)Aurora-Associated Phenomena and the ePOP Mission (L M Kagan)Ultra Long Range Aircraft Operations and Space Weather (I L Getley & M L Duldig)Link Between Cosmic Rays and Clouds on Different Time Scales (I G Usoskin & G A Kovaltsov)Effects of Typhoon on the Ionosphere (Y-M Liu et al.)A Mission Called SAPPORO (W-H Ip et al.)and other papersVolume 3: Planetary Science (PS)Review of Mariner 10 Observations: Mercury Surface Impact Processes (C R Chapman)On the Dynamics of Charged Particles in the Magnetosphere of Mercury (D C Delcourt & K Seki)Neutral Atom Emission from Mercury (A Mura et al.)Diagnosing the Mercury Plasma Environment Using Low-Frequency Electric Field Measurements (L G Blomberg & J A Cumnock)Low Energy Ion Observation by Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter: MMO (Y Saito et al.)Ice on the Moon and Mercury (D H Crider et al.)The Bulk Density of Cometary Nuclei (B J R Davidsson)A Mission Called SAPPORO (W-H Ip et al.)and other papersVolume 4: Hydrological Science (HS)Simulation Korea Summer Monsoon Rainfall with NCAR Regional Climate Model (F P Singh et al.)Urban Flood Analysis with Underground Space (K Toda et al.)Climate Variability and Drought in Rajasthan (A Goel & R B Singh)Modeling of Floodplain Inundation Process in Low-Lying Areas (P T Hai et al.)Oxygen Transfer by Flow Characteristics at Stepped Drop Structure (J-H Kim)Inter and Intra Neuronal Systems for Reservoir Operation (R B Varadharajan)Sensitivity Analysis for Optimization Model for Coastal Groundwater (S-H Hong & N Park)and other papersVolume 5: Oceans and Atmospheres (OA)Sabah Shoreline Management Plan (F Jakobsen et al.)Potential for Sulfide Mineral Deposits in Australian Waters (T F McConachy)Local to Long-Range Dust Transport over Central Eastern Australia (M S Speer & L M Leslie)Interannual Variations in Pacific SST Deviations through AVHRR (J Yu & P Gloersen)An Investigation of Winter Rainfall and Snowfall in the Mountain and Coast (H Choi)Impact of Regional Circulation and Heat Budget to Tropical Night (H Choi & D S Choi)and other papers Readership: Academics, researchers and postgraduate students in geosciences.Keywords:Planetary Science;Atmosphere;Ionosphere;Magnetosphere
Solar Flare Loops: Observations and Interpretations by Guangli Huang,Victor F. Melnikov,Haisheng Ji,Zongjun Ning Pdf
This book provides results of analysis of typical solar events, statistical analysis, the diagnostics of energetic electrons and magnetic field, as well as the global behavior of solar flaring loops such as their contraction and expansion. It pays particular attention to analyzing solar flare loops with microwave, hard X-ray, optical and EUV emissions, as well as the theories of their radiation, and electron acceleration/transport. The results concerning influence of the pitch-angle anisotropy of non-thermal electrons on their microwave and hard X-ray emissions, new spectral behaviors in X-ray and microwave bands, and results related to the contraction of flaring loops, are widely discussed in the literature of solar physics. The book is useful for graduate students and researchers in solar and space physics.
Physics of the Invisible Sun by Ashok Ambastha Pdf
Physics of the invisible Sun: Instrumentation, Observations, and Inferences provides a new updated perspectives of the dramatic developments in solar physics mainly after the advent of the space era. It focusses on the instrumentation exploiting the invisible windows of the electromagnetic spectrum for observing the outer, fainter layers of the Sun. It emphasizes on the several technical and observational challenges and proceeds to discuss the discoveries related to energetic phenomena occurring in the transition region and corona. The book begins with giving a brief glimpse of the historical developments during the pre-, and post-telescopic periods of visible and spectroscopic techniques, ground-based optical and radio observing sites. Various types of telescopes and back-end instrumentation are presented based on photometry, spectroscopy, and polarimetry using the Zeeman and Hanle effects for measurement of magnetic fields, and Doppler effect for radial velocity measurements. The book discusses theoretical and observational inferences based on detection of solar neutrinos, and helioseismology as the probes of the hidden solar interior, and tests of solar standard models. The characteristic properties and observational signatures of global solar p- and g-oscillations modes, developments in local helioseismology and asteroseismology are discussed. The role of the solar magnetic field and differential rotation in the activity and magnetic cycles, prediction methodologies, and dynamo models are described. Observing the Sun in IR at the longer, and the UV, EUV, XUV, X-rays, and gamma-rays at the shorter wavelengths are covered in detail. Observational challenges at each of these wavelengths are presented followed by the instrumentation for detection and imaging that have resulted in enhancing the understanding of various solar transient phenomena, such as, flares and CMEs. The outer most corona is described as a dynamic, expanding component of the Sun from the theoretical and observational perspectives of the solar wind. It then discusses the topics of the Interplanetary magnetic field, slow and fast solar wind, interaction with magnetised and non-magnetised objects of the solar system, the space weather and the physics of the heliosphere. The chapter on the future directions in solar physics presents a brief overview of the new major facilities in various observing windows, and the future possibilities of observing the Sun from ground and vantage locations in space. Features: Systematic overview of the developments in instrumentation, observational challenges and inferences derived from ground-based and space-borne solar projects. Advances in the understanding about the solar interior from neutrinos and helioseismology. Recent research results and future directions from ground- and space-based observations. This book may serve as a reference book for scientific researchers interested in multi-wavelength instrumentation and observational aspects of solar physics. It may also be used as a textbook for a graduate-level course.
Energy Conversion and Particle Acceleration in the Solar Corona by Karl-Ludwig Klein Pdf
The conversion of energy generated in the Sun's interior creates its hot corona and a wealth of dynamical phenomena such as flares and mass ejections. Based on recent significant progress in understanding magnetic reconnection and a wealth of new observations of energetic particle signatures from the sun, the present volume reviews the current theoretical and experimental status in the field. Paying attention to both the details and the broader picture, this book addresses both the experienced researcher as well as non-specialist researchers from related areas and postgraduate students.
Probing the Sun with High Resolution by S. C. Tripathy,P. V. Venkatakrishnan Pdf
Contributed articles presented at the Meeting on "Probing the Sun with High Resolution" was held on Oct. 10-16, 2001 at Udaipur Solar Observatory, Udaipur.
The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) - Mission Description and Early Results by R.P. Lin,B.R. Dennis,Arnold O. Benz Pdf
The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) satellite was launched on 5 February 2002. Its objective is to study the energy release and particle acceleration in solar flares through observations of X-rays and gamma rays. Two novel technologies are combined to obtain both spectra and images over a broad energy range. For the spectroscopy, cooled hyperpure germanium detectors are used to cover the energy range from 3 keV to 17 MeV with unprecedented keV-class resolution. Since focusing optics are not possible for making images with such high energy photons, tungsten and molybdenum absorbing grids are used to modulate the X-rays and gamma-rays coming from the Sun as the spacecraft rotates. This allows the spatial Fourier components of the source to be determined so that images can be made in spectral ranges where astronomical images have never been produced before. These new instrumental techniques require equally innovative software to reconstruct X-ray and gamma-ray spectra and images from the observations. Ample solar activity, abundant observations, and an open data policy have attracted many researchers. Astronomers face in the RHESSI mission an exciting new scientific potential. It has unusually broad possibilities for improving our understanding of the enigmatic solar flare phenomenon that is becoming increasingly important as society depends more and more on space-based technologies. In this volume, the functioning of RHESSI is explained, the data analysis techniques including spectroscopy and image reconstruction are introduced, and the experiences of the first few months of operation are summarized. First scientific results are presented that provide the essential base for more extended studies using RHESSI data and complementary observations by instruments on other spacecraft and at ground-based solar observatories. Scientists and students will find here the latest discoveries in solar flare research, as well as inspiration for future work. The papers will serve as references for the many new discoveries to come from the continuing RHESSI observations.