Magnetic Fields in Diffuse Media

By Alexander Lazarian

Book Overview

Future Observations of Cosmic Magnetic Fields with LOFAR, SKA and its precursors.- Magnetic fields with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.- Synchrotron radiation and Faraday rotation.- Interstellar Grain Alignment - Observational Status.- Magnetic Field Measurement with Ground State Alignment.- Kinetic Turbulence.- Interstellar Polarization and Magnetic Turbulence.- MHD Turbulence and its Implications.- The intermittency of ISM turbulence: what do the observations tell us?.- Ambipolar Diffusion.- Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysical Environments.- Interstellar MHD Turbulence and Star Formation.- Observations of Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds-Testing Star Formation Theory.- Magnetic Fields in Star Formation.- Particle Acceleration by Magnetic Reconnection.- Cosmic Ray transport in turbulent magnetic field.- Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way.- Magnetic fields in galaxies.- Simulations of galactic dynamos.- Cosmic rays in galaxy clusters and their interaction with magnetic fields.- Turbulence in the intracluster medium.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3662507226
• ISBN13: 9783662507223
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 623 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"