Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics

Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics
Author: Penny Martens
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2002-10-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080537170

These are the Proceedings of the Yohkoh 10th Anniversary Meeting, a COSPAR Colloquium held in Kona, Hawaii, USA, on January 20-24, 2002. The title of the meeting was Multi-Wavelength Observations of Coronal Structure and Dynamics. In these proceedings the many and varied advances of the dynamics solar atmosphere in the past ten years of observations by Yohkoh have been reviewed.

The Solar Dynamics Observatory

The Solar Dynamics Observatory
Author: Phillip Chamberlin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2012-05-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461436737

This volume is dedicated to the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which was launched 11 February 2010. The articles focus on the spacecraft and its instruments: the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE), and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI). Articles within also describe calibration results and data processing pipelines that are critical to understanding the data and products, concluding with a description of the successful Education and Public Outreach activities. This book is geared towards anyone interested in using the unprecedented data from SDO, whether for fundamental heliophysics research, space weather modeling and forecasting, or educational purposes. Previously published in Solar Physics journal, Vol. 275/1-2, 2012. Selected articles in this book are published open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license at link.springer.com. For further details, please see the license information in the chapters.

Physics of the Solar Corona

Physics of the Solar Corona
Author: Markus Aschwanden
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 946
Release: 2006-01-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783540307655

A thorough introduction to solar physics based on recent spacecraft observations. The author introduces the solar corona and sets it in the context of basic plasma physics before moving on to discuss plasma instabilities and plasma heating processes. The latest results on coronal heating and radiation are presented. Spectacular phenomena such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections are described in detail, together with their potential effects on the Earth.

Solar Dynamics and its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earth

Solar Dynamics and its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earth
Author: Daniel Baker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2007-11-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 038769532X

This volume helps the reader to understand the ways and means of how dynamical phenomena are generated at the Sun, how they travel through the Heliosphere, and how they affect Earth. It provides an integrated account of the three principal chains of events all the way from the Sun to Earth: the normal solar wind, coronal mass ejections, and solar energetic particles.

Solar and Space Physics

Solar and Space Physics
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309313953

In 2010, NASA and the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council to assemble a committee of experts to develop an integrated national strategy that would guide agency investments in solar and space physics for the years 2013-2022. That strategy, the result of nearly 2 years of effort by the survey committee, which worked with more than 100 scientists and engineers on eight supporting study panels, is presented in the 2013 publication, Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society. This booklet, designed to be accessible to a broader audience of policymakers and the interested public, summarizes the content of that report.

Solar Dynamics and Magnetism from the Interior to the Atmosphere

Solar Dynamics and Magnetism from the Interior to the Atmosphere
Author: Nagi N. Mansour
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1489980059

Discusses recent advances and new problems in the exploration of the Sun's interior structure, solar dynamics and dynamo, mechanisms of sunspot and active regions formation, sources of solar irradiance variations and links between the subsurface dynamics, flaring and CME activity. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission has provided a large amount of new data on solar dynamics and magnetic activities during the rising phase of the current and highly unusual solar cycle. These data are complemented by the continuing SOHO mission and by ground-based observatories that include the GONG helioseismology network and the New Solar Telescope. Also, the observations are supported by realistic numerical simulations on supercomputers. This unprecedented amount of data provides a unique opportunity for multi-instrument investigations that address fundamental problems of the origin of solar magnetic activity at various spatial and temporal scales. This book demonstrates that the synergy of high-resolution multi-wavelength observations and simulations is a key to uncovering the long-standing puzzles of solar magnetism and dynamics. This volume is aimed at researchers and graduate students active in solar physics and space science. Originally published in Solar Physics journal, Vol. 287/1-2, 2013.