Leon Golub, Jay M Pasachoff

The Solar Corona

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Second edition graduate level textbook giving an up-to-date treatment of our understanding of the solar corona.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 179mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9780521882019
• ISBN-10: 052188201X
• Artikelnr.: 26204124

Autorenporträt

Leon Golub is Senior Astrophysicist in the High Energy Division at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He specializes in studies of solar and stellar magnetic activity, and has built numerous rocket and satellite instruments to study the Sun and its dynamic behavior.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Brief history of coronal studies
3. The coronal spectrum
4. The solar cycle
5. Ground-based observations
6. Observations from space: I. The first 4 decades
7. Activity of the inner corona
8. Observations from space: II. Recent missions
9. The solar wind
10. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections
Notes
References
Index.