Robotic Exploration Close to the Sun: Scientific Basis

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Habbal, Shadia R, Author.

Contributor:

Habbal, Shadia Rifai

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Series:

AIP conference proceedings ; 385.

AIP conference proceedings ; 385

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robotics--Congresses.

Robotics.

Solar wind--Congresses.

Solar wind.

Sun--Corona--Congresses.

Sun.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Scientific Basis For Robotic Exploration Close To The Sun, Volume 385

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] American Institute of Physics 1998

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The proceedings of the workshop on the Scientific Basis for Robotic Exploration Close to the Sun. Designed for a brief and close encounter with the sun between 20 and 3 solar radii above the solar surface, the Solar Probe will directly sample the solar corona.

Contents:

Chapter Summary: In Situ Measurement Requirements for a Solar Probe / D.A. Roberts and J.T. Gosling

Coronal Structure Inferred from Remote Sensing Observations / W.C. Feldman

Physical Nature of the Low-Speed Solar Wind / J.T. Gosling

Energetic Particles in the Solar Wind and at the Sun / R.P. Lin

Wavelet Analysis of the Structure of Microstreams in the Polar Solar Wind / M. Neugebauer, A. Ruzmaikin and D.J. McComas

Plasma Waves in the Solar Corona / P. Rodriguez

Observational Requirements for In Situ Plasma Instrumentation for Solar Probe / E.C. Sittler, Jr., D. Chornay and J. Keller [and others]

Turbulence Properties along the Solar Probe Trajectory / W.H. Matthaeus

Chapter Summary: Remote Sensing Measurements of the Corona with the Solar Probe / S.R. Habbal and R. Woo

Morphology of the Solar Corona from Radio Occultation Measurements: Implications for Solar Probe / R. Woo.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-56396-618-2