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Plasma Astrophysics - Kinetic Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Plasma Astrophysics - Kinetic Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 184
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This textbook is intended as an introduction to the physics of
solar and stellar coronae, emphasizing kinetic plasma processes. It
is addressed to observational astronomers, graduate students, and
advanced undergraduates without a back ground in plasma physics.
Coronal physics is today a vast field with many different aims and
goals. Sort ing out the really important aspects of an observed
phenomenon and using the physics best suited for the case is a
formidable problem. There are already several excellent books,
oriented toward the interests of astrophysicists, that deal with
the magnetohydrodynamics of stellar atmospheres, radiation
transport, and radiation theory. In kinetic processes, the
different particle velocities play an important role. This is the
case when particle collisions can be neglected, for example in very
brief phenomena - such as one period of a high-frequency wave - or
in effects produced by energetic particles with very long collision
times. Some of the most persistent problems of solar physics, like
coronal heating, shock waves, flare energy release, and particle
acceleration, are likely to be at least partially related to such
pro cesses. Study of the Sun is not regarded here as an end in
itself, but as the source of information for more general stellar
applications. Our understanding of stellar processes relies
heavily, in turn, on our understanding of solar processes. Thus an
introduction to what is happening in hot, dilute coronae
necessarily starts with the plasma physics of our nearest star.
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