Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities in Astrophysics (eBook, PDF)

Proceedings of the 107th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union Held in College Park, Maryland, U.S.A., August 8-11, 1983
Redaktion: Kundu, M. R.; Holman, Gordon D.

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Produktbeschreibung

Proceedings of Symposium No. 107 held in College Park, Maryland, U.S.A., August 8-11, 1983

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789400965201
• Artikelnr.: 44181712

Inhaltsangabe

Introductory Remarks.- Session I.- Magnetic Field Reconnection in Cosmic Plasmas (Invited Review).- Patchy Reconnection and Magnetic Ropes in Astrophysical Plasmas (Invited Review).- Magnetic Flux Ropes of Venus: A Paradigm for Helical Magnetic Structures in Astrophysical Systems (Poster Paper).- Laboratory Experiments On Current Sheet Disruptions, Double Layers, Turbulence and Reconnection (Invited Review).- Reconnection in Sheared Magnetic Fields in Space and Astrophysics (Invited Review).- Session II.- Formation, Equilibrium and Stability of Jets (Invited Review).- Energy Dissipation Mechanisms in the Solar Corona (Invited Review).- On the Role of Double Layers in Astrophysical Plasmas (Invited Contribution).- Particle Energization in Stochastic Double Layers.- Links Between Jet Instabilities, Radiation and Propagation in Astrophysics (Invited Contribution).- A Unified Theory of Coronal Heating.- Session III.- Laboratory Experiments on Reconnection in Current Sheets (Invited Review).- Computer Simulation of Reconnection in Planetary Magnetospheres (Invited Review).- Observational Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection in Microwave Solar Bursts.- Acceleration of Runaway Electrons and Joule Heating in Solar Flares.- The Coalescence Instability and Solar Flares (Invited Contribution).- 3D Simulation of Externally Driven Reconnection.- Opening of the Magnetic Field Lines in a Fast Rotating Magnetosphere, with an Application to Jupiter.- Quasi-Static Evolution of Force-free Magnetic Fields and a Model for Two-Ribbon Solar Flares (Poster Paper).- Solar Microwave Emission in Active Regions (Poster Paper).- Session IV.- Current Sheets in Solar Flares (Invited Contribution).- Energy Dissipation Mechanisms in Flare Stars (Invited Review).- A Unified Treatment of the Filament and Flare Instabilities (Invited Contribution).- Nonlinear Evolution of the Resistive Tearing Mode (Poster Paper).- Resistive Instabilities in Astrophysical Conditions: A Critical Discussion (Poster Paper).- Magnetodynamical Processes in Interacting Magnetospheres in RS CVn Binaries.- sweeping Pinch Mechanism and the Acceleration of Jets in Astrophysics (Poster Paper).- Energy Release in Solar.- An Interpretation of Millisecond Time Variation in Hard X-ray Solar Flares.- Observations of the Earth s Cross-Tail Current Sheet and Their Implications.- Plasma Instabilities Generated by Streaming Particles.- Session V.- Anomalous Transport in Current Sheets (Invited Review).- Anomalous Transport Induced by Field Aligned Currents and its Relation to Electromagnetic Coupling (Invited Review).- Self-Confined Cosmic Rays (Invited Review).- Nonlinear Effects and the Limitation of Electron Streaming Instabilities in Astrophysics.- Cosmic Rays and the Parker Instability (Poster Paper).- Phase Mixing of Propagating Alfvén Waves.- Velocity Shear Instabilities in the Anisotropic Solar Wind (Poster Paper) 371.- Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities in a Magnetised Compressible Plasma (Sheared Flow).- Session VI.- Plasma Heating by Alfvén Waves Kinetic Properties of Magnetohydrodynamic Disturbances (Invited Review).- Kinetic Theory of Alfven Wave Heating (Poster Paper).- MHD Equilibrium and Instabilities in Extragalactic Jets (Invited Review).- Bursting Particle Acceleration in Radio Jets (Invited Contribution).- Instabilities in Astrophysical Jets: Disease and Cure (Invited Contribution).- Current Systems in Radio Jets.- Is the Jet in M87 Magnetically Confined?.- Session VII.- Laboratory Plasma Processes of Astrophysical Interest (Invited Review).- Accretion Disk Electrodynamics (Invited Review).- Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Production by Current Disruption in Active Galactic Nuclei (Poster Paper).- Theory of Strongly Turbulent Two-Dimensional Cross Field Convection of Current Carrying Space Plasmas (Abstract).- Magnetic Field Reconnection in Differentially Rotating Accretion Disks.- Coronal Arcades in the Sun and Their Hydromagnetic Stability.- MHD Analysis of the Evolution of Solar Mag