Multi-scale Dynamical Processes in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas / edited by Manfred P. Leubner, Zoltán Vörös.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leubner, Manfred P.

Vörös, Zoltán.

Series:

Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, 1570-6605 ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solar system.

Astrophysics.

Space Physics.

Local Subjects:

Space Physics.

Astrophysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Magnetized plasmas in the universe exhibit complex dynamical behavior over a huge range of scales. The fundamental mechanisms of energy transport, redistribution and conversion occur at multiple scales. The driving mechanisms often include energy accumulation, free-energy-excited relaxation processes, dissipation and self-organization. The plasma processes associated with energy conversion, transport and self-organization, such as magnetic reconnection, instabilities, linear and nonlinear waves, wave-particle interactions, dynamo processes, turbulence, heating, diffusion and convection represent fundamental physical effects. They demonstrate similar dynamical behavior in near-Earth space, on the Sun, in the heliosphere and in astrophysical environments. 'Multi-scale Dynamical Processes in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas' presents the proceedings of the International Astrophysics Forum Alpbach 2011. The contributions discuss the latest advances in the exploration of dynamical behavior in space plasmas environments, including comprehensive approaches to theoretical, experimental and numerical aspects. The book will appeal to researchers and students in the fields of physics, space and astrophysics, solar physics, geophysics and planetary science. .

Contents:

Part I Magnetic field topology and reconnection

Field Line Topology and Rapid Reconnection

Acceleration of Energetic Particles through Reconnection of Weakly Stochastic Magnetic Field

Dynamical Behaviors of the Solar Chromosphere Observed with Hinode Dynamics in Sunspot Light Bridges and Magnetic Reconnection Processes

Signatures of magnetic reconnection in solar eruptive flares: A multi-wavelength perspective

Energy Cascades in Large-scale Solar Flare Reconnection

Plasmoids in Solar Flares and their Radio and X-ray Signatures

Occurrence of Magnetic Reconnection in the Deep Magnetotail: ARTEMIS Results

Part II Plasma relaxation and heating

Relaxation and heating triggered by nonlinear kink instability: application to solar flares and coronal heating

Plasma Relaxation in Hall Magnetohydrodynamics

Alfvén Waves in Dusty Proto-Stellar Accretion Disks

Part III Statistical physics and entropy approaches

Turbulent equilibrium and nonextensive entropy

Modeling space plasma dynamics with anisotropic Kappa distributions

Part IV Waves, shocks and turbulence

MagnetohydrodynamicWaves in Partially Ionized Prominence Plasmas

Alfvén Amplifier in the Solar Atmosphere

Alfvénic Solitary and Shock Waves in Plasmas

Recent Progress in the Theory of Electron Injection in Collisionless Shocks

Superdiffusive transport at shocks in space plasmas

Inversion of physical parameters in solar atmospheric seismology

Interaction of wave packets in MHD and EMHD turbulence

Observations of Electromagnetic Fluctuations at Ion Kinetic Scales in the Solar Wind

On the passive nature of proton temperature in solar wind turbulence

Part V Heliogeophysics and planetary physics

Fine Particles and Nonlinear Processes in Plasma Heliogeophysics

Magnetospheres of the Mercury, Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn

Location of the inner edges of astrophysical discs related to the central object

Stochastic properties ofsolar activity proxies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-69749-1

3-642-30442-7

OCLC:

809767570