The environments of the sun and the stars / Jean-Pierre Rozelot, Coralie Neiner, editors.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Rozelot, J.-P. (Jean-Pierre), 1942-
• Neiner, C. (Coralie)
• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France)

Series:

• Lecture notes in physics ; 857.
• Lecture notes in physics, 0075-8450 ; v. 857

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Sun.
• Solar atmosphere.
• Space environment.
• Plasma astrophysics.

Physical Description:

xi, 253 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2012]

Contents:

• Discontinuities and turbulence in the solar wind / Laurence Rezeau
• Nature and variability of plasmas ejected by the sun / J.-C. Vial
• Space weather and space climate : what the look from the earth tells us about the sun / Katya Georgieva
• Tides in planetary systems and in multiple stars : a physical picture / Stéphane Mathis and Françoise Remus
• Interactions in massive binary stars as seen by interferometry / F. Millour ... [et al.]
• Very close environments of young stars / F. Malbet
• An introduction to accretion disks / E. Alecian
• Stellar winds, magnetic fields and disks / Asif ud-Doula
• Magnetic field and convection in the cool supergiant Betelgeuse / P. Petit ... [et al.]
• The formation of circumstellar disks around evolved stars / Olivier Chesneau.

Notes:

• Based on a CNRS summer school held in Roscoff, France, in 2011. Cf. pref.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9783642306471
• 3642306470

OCLC:

793572019