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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965495103321

Autore

Parker E. N (Eugene Newman), <1927-2022, >

Titolo

Spontaneous current sheets in magnetic fields : with applications to stellar x-rays / / Eugene N. Parker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773263-1

1-280-45095-9

9786610450954

0-19-536085-0

1-60129-868-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (435 p.)

Collana

International series on astronomy and astrophysics ; ; 1.

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

523.72

Soggetti

Solar x-rays

Cosmic magnetic fields

Magnetostatics

Sun Corona

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p393-418. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE FIELD EQUATIONS; 3 INVARIANCE, DEGENERACY, AND CONTINUOUS SOLUTIONS; 4 FORMAL STRUCTURE OF THE MAGNETOSTATIC EQUATIONS; 5 DIRECT INTEGRATION OF EQUILIBRIUM EQUATIONS; 6 EXAMPLES OF FIELD DISCONTINUITIES; 7 THE OPTICAL ANALOGY; 8 TOPOLOGY OF TANGENTIAL DISCONTINUITIES; 9 FLUID MOTIONS; 10 EFFECTS OF RESISTIVITY; 11 SOLAR X-RAY EMISSION; 12 UNIVERSAL NANOFLARES; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Expanding upon the ideas proposed in his seminal book, the author offers the treatment of the magnetohydrodynamic theory of spontaneous magnetic discontinuities. He shows how it can be used to explain the activity of the external magnetic fields of planets, interstellar gas clouds, galaxies, and the magnetic fields in laboratory



plasmas.