The sun as a guide to stellar physics /

The Sun as a Guide to Stellar Physics illustrates the significance of the Sun in understanding stars through an examination of the discoveries and insights gained from solar physics research. Ranging from theories to modeling and from numerical simulations to instrumentation and data processing, the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Engvold, Oddbjorn (Editor), Vial, J.-C. (Jean-Claude), 1947- (Editor), Skumanich, Andrew (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, [2019]
Subjects:
Stars.
Astronomical spectroscopy.
Stars > Spectra.
�Etoiles.
Spectroscopie astronomique.
�Etoiles > Spectre.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
Stars > Spectra
Astronomical spectroscopy
Stars
Sun.
Soleil.
Sun
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Table of Contents:
  • Discoveries and concepts: the sun's role in astrophysics
  • Stellar and solar chromospheres and attendant phenomena
  • The sun's atmosphere
  • Helopseismic Inferences on the internal structure and dynamics of the sun
  • Atmospheric structure, non-equilibrium thermodynamics and magnetism
  • Spectropolarimetry and magnetic structures
  • Coronal magnetism as a universal phenomenon
  • Magnetohydrodynamics and solar dynamo action
  • Solar and stellar variability
  • High-energy solar physics
  • Space weather at earth and in our solar system
  • The solar-stellar connection
  • Observations of the sun from space
  • High-resolution ground-based observations of the sun
  • Solar data and simulations
  • Challenges and prospects for the future.

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