Solar and stellar magnetic activity /

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Author / Creator:Schrijver, Carolus J.
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Description:xvi, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge astrophysics series 34
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4280970
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Other authors / contributors:Zwaan, C. (Cornelis)
ISBN:0521582865 (hc.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-373) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: solar features and terminology
  • 2. Stellar structure
  • 3. Solar rotation and meridional flow
  • 4. Solar magnetic structure
  • 5. Solar magnetic configurations
  • 6. Global properties of the solar magnetic field
  • 7. The solar dynamo
  • 8. The solar outer atmosphere
  • 9. Stellar outer atmospheres
  • 10. Mechanisms of outer-atmospheric heating
  • 11. Activity and stellar properties
  • 12. Stellar magnetic phenomena
  • 13. Activity and rotation on evolutionary time scales
  • 14. Activity in binary stars
  • 15. Propositions on stellar dynamos
  • Appendix I: unit conversions
  • Index