The Sun

A Laboratory for Astrophysics

By: J.T. Schmelz (Editor), John C Brown (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 July 1992

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As in the days following Skylab, solar physics came to the end of an era when the So lar Maximum Mission re-entered the earth's atmosphere in December 1989. The 1980s had been a pioneering decade not only in space- and ground-based studies of the solar atmosphere (Solar Maximum Mission, Hinotori, VLA, Big Bear, Nanc;ay, etc.) but also in solar-terrestrial relations (ISEE, AMPTE), and solar interior neutrino and helioseismol ogy studies. The pace of development in related areas of theory (nuclear, atomic, MHD, beam-plasma) has been equally impressive. All of these raised tantalizing further questions about the structure and dynamics of the Sun as the prototypical and best observed star. This Advanced Study Institute was timed at a pivotal point between that decade and the realisation of Yohkoh, Ulysses, SOHO, GRANAT, Coronas, and new ground-based optical facilities such as LEST and GONG, so as to teach and inspire the up and coming young solar researchers of the 1990s. The topics, lecturers, and students were all chosen with this goal in mind, and the result seems to have been highly successful by all reports.

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Preface
List of Participants
Opening Address	p. 1
Solar Interior
The Structure and Evolution of the Sun	p. 11
Seismic Investigation of the Solar Interior	p. 29
Convection	p. 81
Mean Field Dynamo Theory	p. 99
The MHD Description of Cosmic Plasmas	p. 139
Symmetric and Nonsymmetric MHD Equilibria	p. 155
Solar and Stellar Atmospheres
The Photosphere	p. 175
Small-Scale Photospheric Magnetic Fields	p. 191
Sunspots: A Laboratory for Solar Physics	p. 221
Chromospheric Structure	p. 245
Spectroscopic Diagnostics	p. 261
The Solar Corona	p. 277
Solar Radio Observations	p. 297
Stellar Chromospheres, Coronae, and Winds	p. 313
Exact 2-D MHD Solutions for Astrophysical Outflows	p. 349
Solar Instrumentation
Solar Optical Instrumentation	p. 379
Solar Ultraviolet Instrumentation	p. 395
Solar Radio Instrumentation	p. 411
Soft X-Ray Instrumentation	p. 423
X-Ray Instrumentation	p. 435
Solar and Stellar Activity
Solar Activity	p. 449
Overview of Solar Flares	p. 465
High-Energy Flare Emissions	p. 475
Energy Release and Transport in Flare Plasmas	p. 489
Stellar Flares: Observations and Modelling	p. 509
Physics of Flares in Stars and Accretion Disks	p. 535
Index	p. 599
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