Multi-Scale Physics in Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration: From the Sun Into the Inner Heliosphere

Book Overview

UVCS Observations of Temperature and Velocity Profiles in Coronal Holes.- Helios: Evolution of Distribution Functions 0.3-1 AU.- Sources of Solar Wind at Solar Minimum: Constraints from Composition Data.- SUMER Observations of Coronal-Hole Temperatures.- Recent Observations of Plasma and Alfvenic Wave Energy Injection at the Base of the Fast Solar Wind.- Solar Wind Models from the Chromosphere to 1 AU.- Semiempirical Models of the Slow and Fast Solar Wind.- Self-Consistent Models of the Solar Wind.- Alfven Waves: Coherent Phenomena in Coronal Loops and Open-Field Regions.- The Structure and Dynamics of the Corona-Heliosphere Connection.- Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Wind.- Interchange Reconnection: Remote Sensing of Solar Signature and Role in Heliospheric Magnetic Flux Budget.- On the Role of Interchange Reconnection in the Generation of the Slow Solar Wind.- Ion Heating and Acceleration During Magnetic Reconnection Relevant to the Corona.- Power Law Distributions of Suprathermal Ions in the Quiet Solar Wind.- Three-Dimensional Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection With or Without Velocity Shears.- Emerging Parameter Space Map of Magnetic Reconnection in Collisional and Kinetic Regimes.- Magnetic Reconnection for Coronal Conditions: Reconnection Rates, Secondary Islands and Onset.- Kinetic Models for Whistler Wave Scattering of Electrons in the Solar Corona and Wind.- Solar Wind Electron Transport: Interplanetary Electric Field and Heat Conduction.- Anisotropy in Space Plasma Turbulence: Solar Wind Observations.- Scalings, Cascade and Intermittency in Solar Wind Turbulence.- Interactions of Alfven-Cyclotron Waves with Ions in the Solar Wind.- Ion Kinetics in the Solar Wind: Coupling Global Expansion to Local Microphysics.- Nonmodal Linear Theory for Space Plasmas.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493900269
• ISBN13: 9781493900268
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 409 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"