An introduction to stellar magnetic activity / Gibor Basri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basri, Gibor, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

AAS-IOP astronomy. 2022 collection.

AAS-IOP astronomy. [2022 collection], 2514-3433

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stars--Magnetic fields.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

Gibor Basri earned a BSc in Physics from Stanford University in 1973, and a PhD in Astrophysics from the Univ. of Colorado, Boulder in 1979. His thesis was on ultraviolet observations and semi-empirical models of the chromospheres of the Sun and stars. An award of a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship then brought him to the Univ. of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley Astronomy Dept. in 1982.

Summary:

This book provides an introduction to our current knowledge of stellar magnetic activity. It is intended for graduate or advanced undergraduate students or researchers new to the field. Starting with the Sun, it extends to stars of all masses and ages. Topics include the production and measurement of the fields themselves, their effects on the stellar atmospheres, the diagnostics we use to understand them, and the effects of the magnetic activity on the star and its surrounds over time.

Contents:

1. Introduction to the magnetic sun

2. Photospheres

2.1. Physical structures in photospheres

2.2. Starspot light curves

2.3. Doppler and transit imaging of starspots

2.4. Spectroscopic signatures of starspots

3. Chromospheres

3.1. Physical structures in chromospheres

3.2. Chromospheric resonance lines

3.3. H[alpha] and other diagnostics

3.4. Semi-empirical chromospheric models

4. Transition regions and coronae

4.1. Uv, fuv, euv spectra

4.2. Coronae

4.3. Flares

4.4. Stellar winds

5. The evolution of stellar activity

5.1. Historical introduction

5.2. Rotation-activity relations

5.3. Age-activity relations and gyrochronology

6. Stellar magnetic fields

6.1. Magnetic dynamos

6.2. Direct measurement of magnetic fields

7. Stellar magnetism in other contexts

7.1. The bottom of the main sequence (and below)

7.2. Pre-main sequence stars

7.3. Post-main sequence stars

7.4. Hot main sequence stars

7.5. Effects of stellar activity on exoplanets.

Notes:

"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 18, 2022).

ISBN:

9780750321310

0750321318

9780750321327

0750321326

OCLC:

1291622410