Spontaneous Current Sheets in Magnetic Fields
With Applications to Stellar X-Rays
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:8th Sep '94
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Expanding upon the ideas first proposed in his seminal book Cosmical Magnetic Fields, Eugen N. Parker here offers the first in-depth treatment of the magnetohydrodynamic theory of spontaneous magnetic discontinuities. In detailing his theory of the spontaneous formation of tangential discontinuities (current sheets) in a magnetic field embedded in highly conducting plasma, Parker shows how it can be used to explain the activity of the external magnetic fields of planets, stars, interstellar gas clouds, and galaxies, as wellas themagnetic fields in laboratory plasmas. Provocative and fascinating, this book presents a bold new theory that will excite interest and discussion throughout the space physics community.
Parker has great gifts for physical explanation and for expository writing, and he makes the ideas accessible without detailed study of the mathematical examples. 'Spontaneous Current Sheets in Magnetic Fields' is a major work that should be read by anyone interested in magnetohydrodynamics or plasma astrophysics. It will be an influential book for a long time to come. * Ellen G. Zweibel, Science, Vol. 267, 3 March 1995 *
reads very well. ... a remarkable piece of work, that is bound to become a standard reference in the field of magnetic reconnection and coronal physics. * Axel Brandenburg, Radiat. Phys. Chem., vol.47, no.4, 1996. *
ISBN: 9780195073713
Dimensions: 241mm x 162mm x 30mm
Weight: 897g
440 pages