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The Sun, the Solar Wind, and the Heliosphere

Author : Mari Paz Miralles,Jorge Sánchez Almeida
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048197873

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The Sun, the Solar Wind, and the Heliosphere by Mari Paz Miralles,Jorge Sánchez Almeida Pdf

This volume represents the state of the art of the science covered by the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) Division IV: Solar Wind and Interplanetary Field. It contains a collection of contributions by top experts addressing and reviewing a variety of topics included under the umbrella of the division. It covers subjects that extend from the interior of the Sun to the heliopause, and from the study of physical processes in the Sun and the solar wind plasma to space weather forecasts. The book is organized in 6 parts: the solar interior, the solar atmosphere, the heliosphere, heliophysical processes, radio emissions, and coordinated science in the Sun-Earth system. In addition, we highlight some of the results presented during the IAGA Division IV symposia in the 11th Scientific Assembly of IAGA in Sopron, Hungary, on 23-30 August 2009, which was planned simultaneously with this book.

Cosmic Winds and the Heliosphere

Author : Jack Randolph Jokipii,Charles P. Sonett,Mark S. Giampapa
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816518258

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Cosmic Winds and the Heliosphere by Jack Randolph Jokipii,Charles P. Sonett,Mark S. Giampapa Pdf

Contributors examine the physics of wind origin and physical phenomena in winds, including heliospheric shocks, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, and kinetic phenomena--and their interactions with surrounding media. Contributions range from studies of the interstellar cloud surrounding the solar system to solar wind interaction with comets.

The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle

Author : A. Balogh,Louis J. Lanzerotti,Steve T. Suess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540743026

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The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle by A. Balogh,Louis J. Lanzerotti,Steve T. Suess Pdf

Understanding how the Sun changes though its 11-year sunspot cycle and how these changes affect the vast space around the Sun – the heliosphere – has been one of the principal objectives of space research since the advent of the space age. This book presents the evolution of the heliosphere through an entire solar activity cycle. The last solar cycle (cycle 23) has been the best observed from both the Earth and from a fleet of spacecraft. Of these, the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses probe has provided continuous observations of the state of the heliosphere since 1990 from a unique vantage point, that of a nearly polar orbit around the Sun. Ulysses’ results affect our understanding of the heliosphere from the interior of the Sun to the interstellar medium - beyond the outer boundary of the heliosphere. Written by scientists closely associated with the Ulysses mission, the book describes and explains the many different aspects of changes in the heliosphere in response to solar activity. In particular, the authors describe the rise in solar activity from the last minimum in solar activity in 1996 to its maximum in 2000 and the subsequent decline in activity.

Solar Dynamics and its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earth

Author : Daniel Baker,B. Klecker,S.J. Schwartz,R. Schwenn,Rudolf von Steiger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387695327

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Solar Dynamics and its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earth by Daniel Baker,B. Klecker,S.J. Schwartz,R. Schwenn,Rudolf von Steiger Pdf

This volume helps the reader to understand the ways and means of how dynamical phenomena are generated at the Sun, how they travel through the Heliosphere, and how they affect Earth. It provides an integrated account of the three principal chains of events all the way from the Sun to Earth: the normal solar wind, coronal mass ejections, and solar energetic particles.

The Sun and the Heliopsphere as an Integrated System

Author : Giannina Poletto,Steve T. Suess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402028311

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The Sun and the Heliopsphere as an Integrated System by Giannina Poletto,Steve T. Suess Pdf

9 MHDTurbulence in the Heliosphere: Evolution and Intermittency 253 Bruno Bavassano, Roberto Bruno and Vincenzo Carbone 1 Introduction 254 2 MHD Turbulence Evolution 255 2. 1 Ecliptic Turbulence 256 2. 2 Polar Turbulence 258 2. 3 Conclusions on Turbulence Evolution 263 3 Intermittency 264 3. 1 Probability Distribution Functions of Fluctuations and Self-similarity 269 3. 2 Radial Evolution of Intermittency 271 3. 3 Identifying Intermittent Events 273 3. 4 Conclusions on Intermittency 277 10 283 Waves and Turbulence in the Solar Corona Eckart Marsch 1 Introduction 284 2 Coronal Magnetic Field Structures 284 3 Magnetic Network Activity and Coronal Heating 287 4 Waves and Flows in Loops and Funnels 290 5 Magnetohydrodynamic Waves and Flux Tube Oscillations 293 5. 1 Observation and Theory 293 5. 2 Oscillations of Thin Flux Tubes 295 5. 3 Wave Amplitudes Versus Height from Numerical Mod- ~ 2~ 5. 4 A Standing Slow Magnetoacoustic Wave 299 6 Plasma Waves and Heating of Particles 301 7 Generation, Transfer and Dissipation of Coronal Turbulence 303 7. 1 Generation of Magnetohydrodynamic Waves 303 7. 2 Wave Energy Transfer and Turbulent Cascade 304 7. 3 Wave Dissipation in the Kinetic Domain 307 7. 4 Origin and Generation of Coronal High-Frequency Waves 308 7.

Basics of the Solar Wind

Author : Nicole Meyer-Vernet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139461559

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Basics of the Solar Wind by Nicole Meyer-Vernet Pdf

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.

Solar and Space Physics

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Space Studies Board,Committee on a Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics)
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309313957

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Solar and Space Physics by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Space Studies Board,Committee on a Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) Pdf

In 2010, NASA and the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council to assemble a committee of experts to develop an integrated national strategy that would guide agency investments in solar and space physics for the years 2013-2022. That strategy, the result of nearly 2 years of effort by the survey committee, which worked with more than 100 scientists and engineers on eight supporting study panels, is presented in the 2013 publication, Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society. This booklet, designed to be accessible to a broader audience of policymakers and the interested public, summarizes the content of that report.

Solar Journey: The Significance of Our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth

Author : P.C. Frisch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402045578

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Solar Journey: The Significance of Our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth by P.C. Frisch Pdf

Written by experts who created the field, this volume explores uncharted scientific territory, with articles discussing the effect of our galactic environment on the heliosphere, planetary system and Earth. Leading experts in diverse fields discuss the physical changes expected as the heliosphere adjusts to its galactic environment. Topics include the interaction between solar wind and interstellar dust and gas, cosmic ray modulation, magnetospheres, variations in the solar environment, and the cosmic ray isotope record preserved in paleoclimate data.

The Solar Wind and the Earth

Author : Syun-Ichi Akasofu,Y. Kamide
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030454750

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The Solar Wind and the Earth by Syun-Ichi Akasofu,Y. Kamide Pdf

As a star, the sun is continuously emitting an enormous amount of energy 33 into space, up to as much as 3. 9 X 10 erg/ s. This energy emission consists of three modes. Almost all the energy is emitted in the form of the familiar black-body radiation, commonly called sunlight. Although the amount of energy emitted is small, the sun also emits x rays, extreme ultraviolet (EUV), and UV radiations, which are absorbed above the earth's stratosphere. These constitute the second mode of solar energy, separate from the black-body radiation that penetrates the lower layers of the atmosphere. The sun has another important mode of energy emission in which the energy is carried out by charged particles. These particles have a very wide range of energies, from less than I keY to more than I GeV. Because of this wide range, it is convenient to group them into two components: particles with energies greater than 10 keY and the lower-energy particles. The former are generally referred to as solar protons or solar cosmic rays; their emission is associated with active features on the sun. Their interaction with the atmosphere is similar to that of the x ray and EUV radiation. Low-energy particles constitute plasma, a gas of equal numbers of positive and negative particles. Actually, this plasma is the outermost part of the solar atmosphere, namely the corona, which blows out continuously . For this reason, the plasma flow is called the solar wind.

Heliophysics: Space Storms and Radiation: Causes and Effects

Author : Carolus J. Schrijver,George L. Siscoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521760515

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Heliophysics: Space Storms and Radiation: Causes and Effects by Carolus J. Schrijver,George L. Siscoe Pdf

The second in this series of three heliophysics texts, integrating the many aspects of space storms and their energetic radiation.

The Sun, the Earth, and Near-earth Space

Author : John A. Eddy
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 016083807X

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The Sun, the Earth, and Near-earth Space by John A. Eddy Pdf

This book was made possible by NASA Living With a Star grant number NNG06EC631.

Solar and Heliospheric Origins of Space Weather Phenomena

Author : Jean-Pierre Rozelot
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540337591

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Solar and Heliospheric Origins of Space Weather Phenomena by Jean-Pierre Rozelot Pdf

This book comprises an excursion through space weather, a scientific topic in rapid growth and with growing impact and implications for technological societies. The text is aimed at students and scientists working, or interested in, the field and provides a thorough introduction to the topic for those who wish to become acquainted with the basic solar physics at the origin of space weather.

The Sun and the Heliosphere in Three Dimensions

Author : R.G. Marsden
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400946125

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The Sun and the Heliosphere in Three Dimensions by R.G. Marsden Pdf

The 19th ESLAB Symposium on 'The Sun and the Heliosphere in Three Dimensions' was held in Les Diablerets (Switzerland) on 4-6 June 1985. Organised almost exactly ten years after the Goddard Space Fl i ght Center Sympos i um dea 1 i ng with the Sun and the i nterp 1 anetary medium in three dimensions, the aim of this Symposium was not only to review the progress made in understanding the three-dimensional structure and dynamics of the heliosphere, but also to look ahead to the scientific return to be expected from the Ulysses mission. Scheduled for launch in May 1986, the scientific instrumentation on board Ulysses will shed light on the conditions and processes occurring away from the ecliptic plane, thereby adding literally a new dimension to our understanding of the only stellar plasmasphere to which we have direct access. The scientific programme of the Symposium was built around a series of invited review papers dealing with aspects of the corona and its influence on the interplanetary medium via transient ejecta, the solar wind, energetic solar particles and galactic cosmic rays, interplanetary dust and neutral gas. These invited talks were supplemented by a number of contributed and poster papers. With the exception of three contributed talks and Wibberenz' review of coronal and acceleration of energetic particles, all papers propagation presented at the Symposium are included in this volume.

Exploring the Solar Wind

Author : Marian Lazar
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789535103394

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Exploring the Solar Wind by Marian Lazar Pdf

This book consists of a selection of original papers of the leading scientists in the fields of Space and Planetary Physics, Solar and Space Plasma Physics with important contributions to the theory, modeling and experimental techniques of the solar wind exploration. Its purpose is to provide the means for interested readers to become familiar with the current knowledge of the solar wind formation and elemental composition, the interplanetary dynamical evolution and acceleration of the charged plasma particles, and the guiding magnetic field that connects to the magnetospheric field lines and adjusts the effects of the solar wind on Earth. I am convinced that most of the research scientists actively working in these fields will find in this book many new and interesting ideas.

The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle

Author : Andre Balogh,Louis J. Lanzerotti,Steve T. Suess
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540842489

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The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle by Andre Balogh,Louis J. Lanzerotti,Steve T. Suess Pdf

Understanding how the Sun changes though its 11-year sunspot cycle and how these changes affect the vast space around the Sun – the heliosphere – has been one of the principal objectives of space research since the advent of the space age. This book presents the evolution of the heliosphere through an entire solar activity cycle. The last solar cycle (cycle 23) has been the best observed from both the Earth and from a fleet of spacecraft. Of these, the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses probe has provided continuous observations of the state of the heliosphere since 1990 from a unique vantage point, that of a nearly polar orbit around the Sun. Ulysses’ results affect our understanding of the heliosphere from the interior of the Sun to the interstellar medium - beyond the outer boundary of the heliosphere. Written by scientists closely associated with the Ulysses mission, the book describes and explains the many different aspects of changes in the heliosphere in response to solar activity. In particular, the authors describe the rise in solar activity from the last minimum in solar activity in 1996 to its maximum in 2000 and the subsequent decline in activity.