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Autore |
Reames Donald V |
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Titolo |
Solar Energetic Particles [[electronic resource] ] : A Modern Primer on Understanding Sources, Acceleration and Propagation / / by Donald V. Reames |
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Springer Nature, 2021 |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
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[2nd ed. 2021.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XVI, 225 p. 124 illus., 103 illus. in color.) |
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Collana |
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Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 978 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Astronomy |
Astrophysics |
Plasma (Ionized gases) |
Space sciences |
Atmospheric sciences |
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology |
Plasma Physics |
Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) |
Atmospheric Sciences |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface -- Introducing the Sun and SEPs -- A Turbulent History -- Distinguishing the Sources -- Impulsive SEP Events -- Gradual SEP Events -- High Energies and Radiation Effects -- Measurements of SEPs -- Elemental Abundances and FIP: SEPs, The Corona and the Solar Wind -- Hydrogen Abundances and Shock Waves -- Summary and Conclusions. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This open access book serves as a concise primer introducing the non-specialist reader to the physics of solar energetic particles (SEP). It systematically reviews the evidence for the two main mechanisms which lead to the so-called impulsive and gradual SEP events. This second edition contains two completely new chapters discussing element |
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abundances and shock waves, reflecting new theoretical, modeling, and observational results. Existing chapters have been substantially expanded or updated with additions placed in a broader context. More specifically, the author discusses the timing of the onsets of SEPs, their longitude distributions, their high-energy spectral shapes, their correlations with other solar phenomena, as well as the all-important elemental and isotopic abundances. The book relates impulsive SEP events to magnetic reconnection in solar flares and jets. The concept of shock acceleration by scattering on self-amplified Alfvén waves is introduced, as is the evidence of reacceleration of impulsive-SEP material in the seed population accessed by the shocks in gradual events. The text then develops processes of transport of ions out to an observer. Finally, a technique to determine the source plasma temperature in both impulsive and gradual events is demonstrated.The author also mentions the role of SEP events as a radiation hazard in space and briefly discusses the nature of the main particle telescope designs that have contributed to most of the SEP measurements. |
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