Plasma Astrophysics

✍ Scribed by Dr. J. G. Kirk, Professor D. B. Melrose, Professor E. R. Priest (auth.), Professor A. O. Benz, Professor T. J.-L. Courvoisier (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Series: Saas-Fee Advanced Courses 24
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents the lecture notes of the 24th Advanced Course of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy in March 1994 at Les Diablerets. In three lectures on magnetohydrodynamics, on kinetic plasma physics and on particle acceleration leading experts describe the physical basis of their subjects and extend the discussion to several applications in modern problems of astrophysics. In style and presentation the texts are well-suited for graduate work in plasma astrophysics, one of the very important tools of modern astronomy. The themes developed in this book will be helpful in understanding many processes in the universe from the solar corona to active galaxies.

✦ Table of Contents

Magnetohydrodynamics....Pages 1-112
Kinetic Plasma Physics....Pages 113-223
Particle Acceleration....Pages 225-314

✦ Subjects

Astronomy;Astrophysics;Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Plasmas;Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory;Electromagnetism, Optics and Lasers