Dynamic Sun

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B. N. Dwivedi
Cambridge University Press, 2003 - 443 Seiten
Dynamic Sun presents a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the Sun, from its deep core to the outer corona, and the solar wind. The chapters are written by leading scientists in solar physics and deal with solar models and neutrinos, seismic Sun, rotation of the solar interior, helioseismic tomography, solar dynamo, spectro-polarimetry, solar photosphere and convection, dynamics and heating of the solar chromosphere,and solar transition region. With an introduction by eminent astrophysicist Eugene Parker, the twenty chapters are fully illustrated and have comprehensive reference lists.
 

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Seismic Sun
36
Rotation of the solar interior
55
Helioseismic tomography
78
The solar dynamo as a model of the solar cycle
103
Spectropolarimetry
127
Solar photosphere and convection
148
The dynamics of the quiet solar chromosphere
165
Heating of the solar chromosphere
181
Solar activity
238
Particle acceleration
262
Radio observations of explosive energy releases on the Sun
288
Coronal oscillations
314
Probing the Suns hot corona
335
Vacuumultraviolet emission line diagnostics
353
Solar wind
374
Solar observing facilities
403

The solar transition region
196
Solar Magnetohydrodynamics
217

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Bhola Dwivedi is a lecturer in Applied Physics at the Institute of Technology of the Baranas Hindu University, India.

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