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" The Sun: "
edited by Joan T. Schmelz, John C. Brown.
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775776
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edited by Joan T. Schmelz, John C. Brown.
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The Sun: : A Laboratory for Astrophysics\ edited by Joan T. Schmelz, John C. Brown.
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Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1992
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NATO ASI series., Series C,, Mathematical and physical sciences ;, 373.
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(xiii, 617 pages)
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9401052271
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: 9401127654
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: 9789401052276
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: 9789401127653
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1 Opening Address --; I Solar Interior --; 2 The Structure and Evolution of the Sun --; 3 Seismic Investigation of the Solar Interior --; 4 Convection --; 5 Mean Field Dynamo Theory --; 6 The MHD Description of Cosmic Plasmas --; 7 Symmetric and Nonsymmetric MHD Equilibria --; II Solar and Stellar Atmospheres --; 8 The Photosphere --; 9 Small-Scale Photospheric Magnetic Fields --; 10 Sunspots: A Laboratory for Solar Physics --; 11 Chromospheric Structure --; 12 Spectroscopic Diagnostics --; 13 The Solar Corona --; 14 Solar Radio Observations --; 15 Stellar Chromospheres, Coronae, and Winds --; 16 Exact 2-D MHD Solutions for Astrophysical Outflows --; III Solar Instrumentation --; 17 Solar Optical Instrumentation --; 18 Solar Ultraviolet Instrumentation --; 19 Solar Radio Instrumentation --; 20 Soft X-Ray Instrumentation --; 21 X-Ray Instrumentation --; IV Solar and Stellar Activity --; 22 Solar Activity --; 23 Overview of Solar Flares --; 24 High-Energy Flare Emissions --; 25 Energy Release and Transport in Flare Plasmas --; 26 Stellar Flares: Observations and Modelling --; 27 Physics of Flares in Stars and Accretion Disks.
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The Sun: A Laboratory for Astrophysics presents an educational overview of many aspects of solar physics, in an astrophysical context, following two decades of major strides in solar studies from spacecraft and pioneering studies of the Sun as a star. The authors were chosen for the breadth of their interests, most having experience in both theory and observation, and many in instrumentation. The first third of the book addresses the global physics of the Sun and its relation to other stars, covering energy generation, interior structure models, convection, magnetic field generation, as well as constraints obtained from surface observations, both seismic and magnetic. The second portion comprises a mixture of theory and diagnostics of the solar atmosphere and of instrumentation for observations from radio wavelengths to high energies. The final third concerns solar activity and flares, their relation to stellar activity, and their importance for the activities of humankind.
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Nuclear physics.
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Physics.
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QB520.E358 1992
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Joan T Schmelz
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John C Brown
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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Crieff, Scotland, June 16-29, 1991
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