Plasma and the Universe | Dedicated to Professor Hannes Alfvén on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, 30 May 1988 | ISBN 9789400930216

Plasma and the Universe

Dedicated to Professor Hannes Alfvén on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, 30 May 1988

herausgegeben von Carl-Gunne Fälthammar und weiteren
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonCarl-Gunne Fälthammar
Herausgegeben vonR. de Bibhas
Herausgegeben vonGustaf Arrhenius
Herausgegeben vonNicolai Herlofson
Herausgegeben vonD. Asoka Mendis
Herausgegeben vonZdenek Kopal
Buchcover Plasma and the Universe  | EAN 9789400930216 | ISBN 94-009-3021-6 | ISBN 978-94-009-3021-6

Plasma and the Universe

Dedicated to Professor Hannes Alfvén on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, 30 May 1988

herausgegeben von Carl-Gunne Fälthammar und weiteren
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonCarl-Gunne Fälthammar
Herausgegeben vonR. de Bibhas
Herausgegeben vonGustaf Arrhenius
Herausgegeben vonNicolai Herlofson
Herausgegeben vonD. Asoka Mendis
Herausgegeben vonZdenek Kopal

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Hannes Alfvén on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, 30 May 1988.
  • Observations of Propagating Double Layers in a High Current Discharge.
  • Critical Ionization Velocity Interaction: Some Unsolved Problems.
  • Velocity Limitation of a Neutral Dust Cloud Colliding with a Magnetized Plasma.
  • Dynamical Aspects of Electrostatic Double Layers.
  • Cosmic Electric Currents and the Generalized Bennett Relation.
  • Elementary Ideas Behind Plasma Physics.
  • The Dielectric Analogue of Magnetohydrodynamics.
  • Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interactions — Near-Earth Manifestations of the Plasma Universe.
  • Acceleration of Auroral Particles by Magnetic-Field Aligned Electric Fields.
  • Parallel Electric Fields Accelerating Ions and Electrons in the Same Direction.
  • Birkeland Currents in the Earth’s Magnetosphere.
  • Auroral and Magnetic Variations in the Polar Cusp and Cleft — Signatures of Magnetopause Boundary-Layer Dynamics.
  • Plasma Acceleration, Injection, and Loss: Observational Aspects.
  • Charged Dust in the Earth’s Magnetosphere.
  • Generalized Adiabatic Theory Applied to the Magnetotail Current Sheet.
  • Particle Dynamics and Currents in the Magnetotail.
  • Hydromagnetic Waves Associated with Possible Flux Transfer Events.
  • Free Convection and Mass Transfer Effects on the Magnetohydrodynamic Flows Near a Moving Plate in a Rotating Medium.
  • An Electric-Current Description of Solar Flares.
  • Solar Flares through Electric Current.
  • Global Wave Patterns in the Sun’s Magnetic Field.
  • Temporal Variations of Low-Energy Cosmic-Ray Protons on Decade to and Million Year Time-Scales: Implications to Their Origin.
  • Electrodynamics of the EUV/X-ray Bright Point and Filamentary Flux Loop Complexes.
  • Peculiar Solar Flares and Plages of Possible Interest for the Study ofElectric Quadrupole Lines of Na I and Mg II.
  • Band Structure of the Solar System: An Objective Test of the Grouping of Planets and Satellites.
  • The Cosmogonic Shadow Effect.
  • The Role of Magneto-hydrodynamics in Heliospheric Space Plasma Physics Research.
  • Alfvén Waves in a Space Plasma and Its Role in the Solar Wind Interaction with Comets.
  • Modeling a Cometary Nucleus.
  • Filamentation of Volcanic Plumes on the Jovian Satellite Io.
  • In Situ Acceleration and Gradients of Charged Particles in the Outer Solar System Observed by the Voyager Spacecraft.
  • Interaction of Interstellar Pick-Up Ions with the Solar Wind.
  • The Even-Odd Systematics in R-Process Nuclide Abundances.
  • The Solubility Problem of Heavy Elements in Internal Stellar Plasma Revisited.
  • Electron Heating in Superhigh Mach Number Shocks.
  • ‘Dead’ Pulsars: Cosmic-Ray Sources.
  • The Effects of Mutual Irradiation on the Observed Radial Velocity of the Components of Close Binary Systems.
  • Magnetic Confinement of Cosmic Clouds.
  • Mass Pick-Up in Astronomical Flows.
  • Infrared Emission from Interstellar Plasma.
  • On the Fluctuations of the Surface Brightness of Galaxies.
  • On the Dynamics of the Metagalaxy.
  • Tearing Down Disciplinary Barriers.