Solar Surface Magnetism: 433 (Nato Science Series C:, 433) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9401045194 ISBN 13: 9789401045193

Publisher: Springer, 2012

Synopsis

While the emergence and evolution of solar surface magnetic flux reveals what goes on in the solar interior, the interplay of convection and magnetic field in the photosphere regulates the field dispersal and drives the instabilities which heat the outer solar atmosphere. The book presents a synthesis between observers and theorists, both with regard to the magnetic elements which make up solar magnetic fields (ranging from tiny flux tubes to whole active regions), and to the surface patterns in which these elements display properties of the subsurface dynamo. A major breakthrough comes from numerical simulations. Modeling of flux concentration, flux tube dynamics, penumbral topology, umbral fine structure, etc. turns solar physics into an experimental science. The reviews and research papers in this volume provide an up-to-date overview of the solar frontier of astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics.
The elements and patterns of solar surface magnetism contain much information about the subsurface solar dynamo as well as on the magnetically dominated energy budget and structuring of the outer solar atmosphere. The volume treats high-resolution solar polarimetry, the physics of solar magnetic elements, and the information contained in their patterns of emergence on the solar surface in depth, with a good balance between theoretical and observational studies.

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Review

`The volume is well produced and carefully edited by Rutten & Schrijver. It is most highly recommended as an excellent account of a key field ... '
Observatory, 115:1125

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401045194
• ISBN 13: 9789401045193
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 549
• Editor: Rutten R. J., Schrijver C.J.