Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields: Proceedings of the 140th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union Held in Heidelberg, F.R.G., ... Astronomical Union Symposia, 140) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792307046 ISBN 13: 9780792307044

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990

Synopsis

This Symposium, the first devoted entirely to the measurement and the role of magnetic fields in the non-solar Universe, was held in Heidelberg, on June 19-23, 1989. The meeting began with review talks on magnetic phenomena near the solar photosphere, corona, and in stellar winds, since these nearby "laboratories", studied for many years, provide much of the prior knowl­ edge of magnetic effects in astrophysical plasmas. The Symposium contained presentations of considerable new work concerning the role of magnetic fields in accretion disks, bipolar outflows, and related magnetic phenomena in molecular clouds and star forming regions. Both observa­ tions and related theory of the large-scale magnetic fields in the Milky Way were covered, in addition to a session on the more general theme of magnetohydrodynamics of galactic magnetic fields. Dynamo mechanisms were discussed in considerable detail. It was apparent that recent observational data on polarized emission from external galaxies are now of sufficiently high quality that meaningful tests of large-scale field amplification, and of ideas on the origin of galactic magnetic fields, can be undertaken. Both new observations and numerical simulation work were described in the context of active galaxy nuclei, supernova remnants, radio source jets and extended lobes, and also in the environment of galaxy clusters. Recent large-scale computer simulations incorporating magnetic fields in star formation, radio source jets, and many other phenomena were presented, and much of this was very new.

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Synopsis

Contains 172 reviews (with record of the discussion which followed their presentation) and (for the most part quite brief) technical reports, under eleven topical heads. Valuable mainly as the record of a conference attended by more that 200 researchers from 26 countries, and of the status (June, 1989) of a robust field. Printed on slick stock, att

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792307046
• ISBN 13: 9780792307044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 570
• Editor: Beck R., Kronberg P.P., Wielebinski R.