Springer Science+Business Media, New York, 2014, 642 pages, ISBN: 1489974121 Presents a comprehensive review of physical processes in astrophysical plasmas. This title presents a review of the detailed aspects of the physical processes that underlie the observed properties, structures and dynamics of cosmic plasmas. An assessment of the status of understanding of microscale...
Springer, 2025. — 706 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-9819785216 This book offers an updated comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of GRMHD simulations. In Part I, it reviews the basic equations for GRMHD simulations and for numerical relativity. Part II describes public codes for GRMHD simulations. Part III is devoted to accretion processes onto compact objects in the...
Wiley, Weinheim, 2014, 413 pages, ISBN10: 3527410740 Collisionless Plasmas in Astrophysics examines the unique properties of media without collisions in plasma physics. Experts in this field, the authors present the first book to concentrate on collisionless conditions in plasmas, whether close or not to thermal equilibrium. Filling a void in scientific literature,...
New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers. – 2002. – 319 p. (Astrophysics and space science library. Volume 279) This textbook is intended as an introduction to the physics of solar and stellar coronae, emphasizing kinetic plasma processes. It is addressed to observational astronomers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates without a background in plasma physics. The book...
Springer, 2023. — 427 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-11869-2. This book is a collection of contributions covering the major subjects in numerical simulation of space and astrophysical plasma. It introduces the different approaches and methods to model plasma, the necessary computational codes, and applications in the field. The book is rooted in the previous work Space Plasma Simulation...
New York: Oxford University Press. – 1995. – 266 p. (International Series on Astronomy and Astrophysics) The book focuses on the fundamental structures and dynamical processes in the interplanetary medium that have been subjects of the author's research—the things the author feels most competent to write about. Special efforts were made to include numerous references to the...
Springer, 2009. — 325 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 778). — ISBN: 978-3-642-00210-6, 978-3-642-10127-4, 978-3-642-00209-0. Over the years, many leading European graduate schools in the field of astrophysical and spaceplasmas have operated within the framework of the research network, "Theory, Observations, and Simulations in Turbulence in Space Plasmas." This text is a set of...
Springer, 1995. — 406 p. — ISBN: 3-540-60258-5 Part I. Introduction: Ideas and Examples 1. The Fast Dynamo Problem 2. Fast Dynamo Action in Flows 3. Fast Dynamos in Maps Part II. Methods and Their Application 4. Dynamos and Non-dynamos 5. Magnetic Structure in Steady Integrable Flows 6. Upper Bounds 7. Magnetic Structure in Chaotic Flows 8. Nearly Integrable Flows 9. Spectra...
Springer, 2006, 847 pages, ISBN: 140205100X The book consists of four Chapters. Chapter 1 shortly describes main properties of space plasmas and primary CR, different types of CR interactions with space plasmas components (matter, photons, and frozen in magnetic fields). Chapter 2 considers the problem of CR propagation in space plasmas described by the kinetic equation and...
Springer, 2013. - 712 pp. This textbook considers primarily those astrophysical and space plasma phenomena, in which electromagnetic interactions play a primary or at least essential role. This textbook has been written based on graduate and undergraduate courses and seminars on cosmic electrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, plasma astrophysics, and radiative processes in...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 684 pp. — (Cambridge Astrophysics). — ISBN: 9780521833790. Circumstellar dust, the astronomical dust that forms around a star, provides today's researchers with important clues for understanding how the Universe has evolved. This volume examines the structure, dynamics, and observable consequences of the dust clouds surrounding highly evolved...
Springer, 2003. — 215 p. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Library). — ISBN 978-1-4020-1433-8. Most of the visible matter in the universe exists in the plasma state. Plasmas are of major importance for space physics, solar physics, and astrophysics. On Earth they are essential for magnetic controlled thermonuclear fusion.This textbook collects lecture notes from a one-semester...
Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2015, 111 pages, ISBN: 978-4-431-55083-9, 978-4-431-55084-6 This thesis describes the essential features of Moon-plasma interactions with a particular emphasis on the Earth's magnetotail plasma regime from both observational and theoretical standpoints. The Moon lacks a dense atmosphere as well as a strong intrinsic magnetic field. As a result, its...
Springer, 2009, 342 p. This monograph, consisting of 22 contributions, is organized in six parts dealing with astrophysical turbulence, dynamos, pulsar radiation mechanisms, quantum plasmas, accretion disks, and solar and space plasmas. It is well established and appreciated by now that more than 99% of the baryonic matter in the universe is in the plasma state. Most...
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2022. — 328 p. Astronomy has been associated with the detection of electromagnetic waves or photons from within and beyond the solar system, ranging from Radio to Gamma-ray Astronomy. Particle Astrophysics, including Neutrino and Dark-Matter Astrophysics today, started with the discovery of cosmic rays in 1911. The Space Age expanded...
Wiley, 2016. — 501 p. — (Geophysical Monograph Series. Volume 216) — ISBN10: 1119054958 Low-frequency waves in space plasmas have been studied for several decades, and our knowledge gain has been incremental with several paradigm-changing leaps forward. In our solar system, such waves occur in the ionospheres and magnetospheres of planets, and around our Moon. They occur in the...
Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. — 627 pp. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Library 407). — ISBN: 978-3-662-44624-9 (Print) 978-3-662-44625-6 (Online).
This volume presents the current knowledge of magnetic fields in diffuse astrophysical media. Starting with an overview of 21st century instrumentation to observe astrophysical magnetic fields, the chapters...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. – 120 p. – ISBN: 3319250779 This thesis considers the non-equilibrium and energy transfer processes involved in the evolution of astrophysical gases and plasmas. Momentum-energy transfer in collisions of atoms, molecules and ions governs the evolution of interacting astrophysical gas and plasmas. These collisions require an...
Springer-Verlag New York, 2006. — 319 p. — (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library). — ISBN: 978-0-387-47290-4 (eBook), 978-1-4419-2213-7 (Softcover), 978-0-387-33542-1 (Hardcover). This book concerns the generation of electric currents and of electric space charges inside conducting media that move in magnetic fields. The authors postulate nothing but the Maxwell equations. They...
Springer, 2013. - 657 pp. This book focuses on the development of continuum models of natural turbulent media. It provides a theoretical approach to the solutions of different problems related to the formation, structure and evolution of astrophysical and geophysical objects. A stochastic modeling approach is used in the mathematical treatment of these problems, which reflects...
Cambridge University Press, 1991, 423 pages Most of the solar system exists in the plasma state (the fourth state of matter). Its subtle nonlinear interaction with the magnetic field can be described by the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Over the past few years this important and complex field of research has been actively pursued and increasingly diversely applied to...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 218 p. — ISBN: 9781107693401. Almost all conventional matter in the Universe is fluid, and fluid dynamics plays a crucial role in astrophysics. This graduate textbook, first published in 2007, provides a basic understanding of the fluid dynamical processes relevant to astrophysics. The mathematics used to describe these processes is...
Wiley, Weinheim, Germany, 2013, 346 pages, ISBN: 3527410341 In this work the authors draw upon their expertise in geophysical and astrophysical MHD to explore the motion of electrically conducting fluids, the so-called dynamo effect, and describe the similarities and differences between different magnetized objects. They also explain why magnetic fields are crucial to the...
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2015, 559 pages, ISBN10: 3662452421 Astrophysics and Space Science Library This book is the first account of the physics of magnetic flux tubes from their fundamental properties to collective phenomena in an ensembles of flux tubes. The physics of magnetic flux tubes is absolutely vital for understanding fundamental physical processes in the solar...
2nd Edition. — Springer, 2018. — 758 p. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Library 455). — ISBN10: 3319963600. This book presents the physics of magnetic flux tubes, including their fundamental properties and collective phenomena in an ensemble of flux tubes. The physics of magnetic flux tubes is vital for understanding fundamental processes in the solar atmosphere that are...
Springer International Publishing, 2014 — 90p. — (SpringerBriefs in Astronomy) — ISBN: 978-3-319-01475-3 (eBook), 978-3-319-01474-6 (Softcover). In this "SpringerBrief" the author considers the underlying problems and questions that are common to numerical models of turbulence in different astrophysical systems. Turbulence has emerged as an important research topic in several...
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co KGaA. - 2007. - 451 p. The universe is the most wonderful hydrodynamics laboratory imaginable. Every kind of flow we observe in terrestrial environments occurs in the cosmos an a truly grand scale. Supersonic motion, magnetohydrodynamic flows, turbulence of every variety, and instabilities of perplexing richness all present themselves to the...
Сомов Б. В. Плазменная астрофизика, часть
1. Основы и практика.
На английском языке.
Springer, 2006. - 437 стр.
Первая часть книги посвящена изложению мат. аппарата физики плазмы. Автор использует как формализм функций распределения, так и методы магнитогидродинамики.
Во Второй части рассматривается астрофизическое применение физики плазмы, а так же физика магнитных...
Сомов Б. В. Плазменная астрофизика, часть
2. Магнитные пересоединения и вспышки.
На английском языке.
Springer, 2006. - 413 стр.
Первая часть книги посвящена изложению мат. аппарата физики плазмы. Автор использует как формализм функций распределения, так и методы магнитогидродинамики.
Во Второй части рассматривается астрофизическое применение физики плазмы, а так же физика...
Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1992, 243 pages, ISBN: 0792312619
Solar flares are very complex electromagnetic phenomena of a cataclysmic nature. Particles are accelerated to very high velocities and a variety of physical processes happen inside and outside flares. These processes can be studied by a large number of techniques from Earth and from space. The aim is to discover the physics...
2nd ed. - Springer, 2012. - 498 pp.
The first edition, published in 2006, was addressed mainly to graduate students in astrophysics, space sciences and geophysics as well as to advanced students in applied physics and mathematics seeking a unified view of plasma physics and fluid mechanics. Lectures and seminars, given regularly since that time in the Faculty of Physics at the...
2nd ed. - Springer, 2012. - 504 pp.
This two-part book is devoted to classic fundamentals and current practices and perspectives of modern plasma astrophysics. This second part discusses the physics of magnetic reconnection and flares of electromagnetic origin in space plasmas in the solar system, single and double stars, relativistic objects, accretion disks and their coronae....
Springer Netherlands, 2011. — 117 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 810). — ISBN: 978-94-007-0117-5, 978-94-007-0116-8.
In January 1937, Nobel laureate in Physics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was recruited to the University of Chicago. He was to remain there for his entire career, becoming Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics in 1952 and...
Wiley-VCHVerlag, Weinheim, Germany, 2012. – 450 pp. Charged particles, electrons, protons, ions and neutral atoms are invisible but very powerful participants in all processes in plasmas of the Sun, stars, magnetospheres, interplanetary space and laboratory experiments. Their presence in theoretical research is very often masked behind macro descriptions of the plasma status by...
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. — 462 p. Introduction. Electromagnetic waves in homogeneous plasma. Electromagnetic waves in inhomogeneous astrophysical plasma. Transfer of radiation in astrophysical plasmas. Emission by astrophysical plasmas. Absorption in thermal astrophysical plasmas. Reabsorption and amplification of radiation in non-equilibrium plasma. Scattering of...
Пер. с англ. - М.: Мир, 1983.- 216 с., ил. - OCR.
В монографии выдающегося шведского ученого, Нобелевского лауреата, на основе качественного анализа картины электрических токов рассматриваются процессы, протекающие в космической плазме в масштабах от планет до Метагалактики. Излагаются взгляды автора на эволюцию Солнечной системы и Вселенной в целом.
Для астрономов,...
2-е издание. — М.: Мир, 1967. — 260 с. Книга включает вывод основных уравнений, метод ведущего центра для расчёта движения заряда в магнитном поле, а также теорию магнитогидродинамических волн. Новое издание дополнено изложением вопросов генерации магнитного поля, а также теорией плазмы в магнитном поле с приложением к проблемам геофизики и управляемых термоядерных реакций. Книга...
М.: Физматлит, 2013. — 632 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9221-1404-2. В книге обобщаются результаты фундаментальных исследований газодинамики переноса вещества в тесных двойных звездах, находящихся на стадии обмена массой. Приводятся основные сведения о физике процессов обмена веществом в тесных двойных системах. Рассмотрены общие принципы численного моделирования и представлен обзор...
Справочное учебное пособие. — 2-ое изд. — М.: ГАИШ МГУ, 2008. — 199 с. В пособии дано введение в атомную спектроскопию и теорию столкновений для студентов астрофизических специальностей. Изложены основы спектроскопии водородоподобных атомов и многоэлектронных атомных систем. Дано введение в теорию столкновений атомов и ионов с электронами. Описаны фотопроцессы, процессы...
М.: Физматлит, 2003. — 192 с.: ил. На базе развитой авторами теории бароэлектрического эффекта - эффекта перераспределения зарядов в средах при наличии в них неоднородных механических напряжений - получены оценки для электрических и магнитных полей, возникающих у планет и звезд как благодаря действию их собственного гравитационного поля, так и из-за испытываемых ими приливных...
М.: "Янус-К", 1997. - 528 с.
В монографии последовательно, с единой точки зрения изложены общие принципы генерации и переноса излучения в астрофизической плазме. Она отвечает потребностям как радио-, так и рентгеновской астрономии, а также оптической астрономии — в той мере, в какой она связана с процессами взаимодействия излучения с астрофизической плазмой. В книге приведен тот...
М.: Физматлит, 2008. — 560 с. Второй том коллективной монографии 2008 г. освещает следующие вопросы: магнитосферы планет и взаимодействие солнечного ветра с малыми и немагнитными телами Солнечной системы; ионосфера Земли; ионосферы планет; Солнечно-земные связи и космическая погода; лабораторное моделирование, некоторые методы измерения и активные эксперименты; мелкодисперсные...
Диссертация на соискание учёной степени кандидата физико-математических наук. : 01.03.03 — физика Солнца. — Институт Космических Исследований РАН. — Москва: 2020. — 223 с. Актуальность проблемы: В плазменной оболочке Земли, которая состоит из ионосферы, магнитосферы и обтекающего ее солнечного ветра, протекают взаимосогласованные сложные процессы в широком диапазоне...
Учебное пособие. — Санкт-Петербург: Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра Великого, 2023. — 119 с. Рассмотрены вопросы стохастического и регулярного ускорения тяжёлых ионов в астрофизической плазме. Отмечена важность атомных процессов изменения их заряда при движении в достаточно плотной среде. Обсуждаются приложения зарядово-согласованных моделей ускорения к...
Диссертация на соискание учёной степени кандидата физико-математических наук. — Специальность 01.03.02: Астрофизика и звездная астрономия. — Физико-технический институт им. А.Ф. Иоффе. — Санкт-Петербург, 2018. — 124 с. Научный руководитель: д. ф.-м. н. Быков А.М. Введение. Локальная динамика магнитных структур в релятивистской плазме пульсарных туманностей. Перенос частиц...
Пер. с англ. — М.: Мир, 1985. — 592 с. Монография видного английского астрофизика, основанная на курсе лекций, которые в течение пяти лет читались автором в Университете Сент-Андрус в Шотландии, и посвященная взаимодействию магнитного поля с плазмой в приложении к Солнцу. Отличается доступностью изложения, полнотой охвата теории и данных наблюдений, умелым использованием...
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