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Solar and Stellar Magnetic Activity.
The first comprehensive review and synthesis of current understanding of magnetic fields in the Sun and similar stars. Combines studies of the Sun with those of other stars to arrive at an illuminating new view of stellar magnetic activity. Ideal for graduate students and researchers.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Cambridge Astrophysics Series, 34.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: solar features and terminology; 2 Stellar structure; 3 Solar differential rotation and meridional flow; 4 Solar magnetic structure; 5 Solar magnetic configurations; 6 Global properties of the solar magnetic field; 7 The solar dynamo; 8 The solar outer atmosphere; 9 Stellar outer atmospheres; 10 Mechanisms of atmospheric heating; 11 Activity and stellar properties; 12 Stellar magnetic phenomena; 13 Activity and rotation on evolutionary time scales; 14 Activity in binary stars; 15 Propositions on stellar dynamos; Appendix I: Unit conversions.
- BibliographyIndex.