| ISBN13: | 9789402422610 |
| ISBN10: | 9402422617 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 530 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 11 Illustrations, black & white; 130 Illustrations, color |
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Solar and Stellar Dynamos
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This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of the dynamo processes that generate magnetic fields in the Sun and other stars with outer convection zones. Magnetic fields are responsible for the restless activity of the Sun, which include the coming and going of sunspots throughout its 11-year activity cycle, the heating of the solar corona, and the driving forces behind huge eruptions of mass and energy that can affect near-Earth space and terrestrial technical systems. Likewise, other stars show such activity, often even much more energetically as their solar counterparts.
The review papers collected in this volume are written by experts in this research field. The papers deliver introductions to the observational results on solar and stellar magnetic fields and provide detailed presentations on the theoretical concepts and models for self-excited dynamo processes and the underlying flow patterns that cause the emergence, structure, and evolution of magnetic patterns at the surfaces of the Sun and other stars. Comprehensive and realistic numerical simulations have become an indispensable tool for understanding the turbulent processes in stellar interiors as well as for testing analytical approaches and simplified models.
Readers looking for a comprehensive and up-to-date account of this dynamic research field will find a most valuable collection of reviews; serving both as an introduction for newcomers in the field as well as a timely compendium for the active researcher.
The book is a spin-off from the Topical Collection "Solar and Stellar Dynamos: A New Era" of the journal Space Science Reviews.
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of the dynamo processes that generate magnetic fields in the Sun and other stars with outer convection zones. Magnetic fields are responsible for the restless activity of the Sun, which include the coming and going of sunspots throughout its 11-year activity cycle, the heating of the solar corona, and the driving forces behind huge eruptions of mass and energy that can affect near-Earth space and terrestrial technical systems. Likewise, other stars show such activity, often even much more energetically as their solar counterparts.
The review papers collected in this volume are written by experts in this research field. The papers deliver introductions to the observational results on solar and stellar magnetic fields and provide detailed presentations on the theoretical concepts and models for self-excited dynamo processes and the underlying flow patterns that cause the emergence, structure, and evolution of magnetic patterns at the surfaces of the Sun and other stars. Comprehensive and realistic numerical simulations have become an indispensable tool for understanding the turbulent processes in stellar interiors as well as for testing analytical approaches and simplified models.
Readers looking for a comprehensive and up-to-date account of this dynamic research field will find a most valuable collection of reviews; serving both as an introduction for newcomers in the field as well as a timely compendium for the active researcher.
The book is a spin-off from the Topical Collection "Solar and Stellar Dynamos: A New Era" of the journal Space Science Reviews.
Preface M. Schüssler, R.H. Cameron, P. Charbonneau, M. Dikpati,H. Hotta and L. Kitchatinov.- Evolution of Solar and Stellar Dynamo Theory P. Charbonneau and D. Sokoloff.- Solar Cycle Observations A. Norton, R. Howe, L. Upton and I. Usoskin.- Long-Term Modulation of Solar Cycles A. Biswas, B.B. Karak, I. Usoskin and E. Weisshaar.- Scaling and Evolution of Stellar Magnetic Activity E. Işik, J. van Saders, A. Reiners and T. Metcalfe.- Stellar Activity Cycles S. Jeffers, R. Kiefer and Metcalfe.- Dynamics of Large-Scale Flows H. Hotta, Y. Bekki, L. Gizon, Q. Noraz and M.P. Rast.- Dynamics of the Tachocline A. Strugarek, B. Belucz, A.S. Brun, M. Dikpati and G. Guerrero.- Understanding Active Region Origins and Emergence on the Sun and Other Cool Stars M.A. Weber, H. Schunker, L. Jouve and E. Işik.- Surface Flux Transport on the Sun A.R. Yeates, M.C.M. Cheung, J. Jiang, K. Petrovay and Y.-M. Wang.- Simulations of Solar and Stellar Dynamos and their Theoretical Interpretation P.J. Käpylä, M.K. Browning, A.S. Brun, G. Guerrero and J. Warnecke.- Small-Scale Dynamos: From Idealized Models to Solar and Stellar Applications M. Rempel, T. Bhatia, L. Bellot Rubio and M.J. Korpi-Lagg.- Turbulent Processes and Mean-Field Dynamo A. Brandenburg, D. Elstner, Y. Masada and V. Pipin).- Mean Field Models of Flux Transport Dynamo and MeridionalCirculation in the Sun and Stars G. Hazra, D. Nandy, L. Kitchatinov and A. Rai Choudhuri).- Observationally Guided Models for the Solar Dynamoand the Role of the Surface Field R.H. Cameron and M. Schüssler.- Physical Models for Solar Cycle Predictions P. Bhowmik, J. Jiang, L. Upton, A. Lemerle and D. Nandy.