Interplanetary Magnetohydrodynamics (International Series on Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3) 1st Edition by L. F. Burlaga (PDF)

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Spacecraft such as the Pioneer, Vela, and Voyager have explored the interplanetary medium between the orbits of Mercury and Pluto. The insights derived from these missions have been successfully applied to magnetospheric, astro-solar, and cosmic ray physics. This book is an overview of these insights, using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows as the framework for interpreting objects and processes observed in the interplanetary medium. Topics include various types of MHD shocks and interactions among them, tangential and rotational discontinuities, force-free field configurations, the formation of merged interaction regions associated with various types of flows, the destruction of flows, the growth of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and formation of a heliospheric vortex street, the development of multifractal fluctuations on various scales, and the evolution of multifractal intermittent turbulence. Students and researchers in astrophysics will value the data from thesemissions, which provide confirmation of many theoretical models of the interstellar medium.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “Burlaga blends his detailed understanding of the observations with both standard plasma theory and modern concepts from nonlinear dynamics, turbulence theory and other fields. The mix is almost always satisfactory, and sometimes it is much more….this book will be a valuable and stimulating guide for advanced graduate students and researchers who want to enter space physics or who want a concise discussion of the highly relevant topics that the book covers.” –Physics Today”The main strength of this book is the wealth of observational data it provides….a detailed and useful compendium for the specialist and a rich guide to the literature.” –Science About the Author Leonard F. Burlaga received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1966. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the NASA/Goddard Research Center in Maryland.

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⭐The first two books in this Oxford University Press series on Astronomy and Astrophysics are E.N. Parker’s “Spontaneous Current Sheets in Magnetic Fields with Applications to Stellar X-rays” and C. F. Kennel’s “Convection and Substorms: Paradigms of Magnetospheric Phenomenology.” This third book, “Interplanetary Magnetohydrodynamics” is primarily intended for advanced graduate students and scientists who are not specialists in interplanetary physics.My own particular interest in interplanetary physics was sparked by the incredible journeys of the Voyager spacecraft to the edge of our Solar System and beyond. This book describes some of the fundamental structures and processes of the interplanetary medium that these brave voyagers helped to measure. It deals with specific properties of the heliosphere (the region extending from the sun to the termination shock) as measured by the Voyagers and other spacecraft, and treats the interplanetary medium as a Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow.(While the exact location of the termination shock is not known, it is now estimated to be located at about 90 ± 10 Astronomical Units (AU). Voyager 1 should reach 90 AU by the end of this year (2003). What will it experience when it ventures beyond the solar system’s interplanetary magnetic field and into interstellar space?)”Interplanetary Magnetohydrodynamics” was published in 1995 and relies primarily on data from various Pioneers, Mariners, Helios 1 & 2, Vela 3, and Voyager 1 & 2, rather than a newer generation of spacecraft such as the rechristened RHESSI – the Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, which became operational on 02/12/2002, SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration), and TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer spacecraft). As a result, there is for example, no mention of the exciting new research on solar flares and the theory that they may be ‘powered’ by magnetic reconnections (a reexamination of the forty-year-old Sweet-Parker model).However, this is more a book about the really large-scale structures of the heliosphere: the solar wind and the interplanetary magnetic field, the streams and interaction regions that corotate with the period of the sun’s rotation, the shape of the heliospheric current sheet and its boundary conditions, and large-scale periodic fluctuations in the plasma and magnetic field.Dr. Burlaga was a co-investigator on several of the magnetospheric and plasma cloud experiments performed by Helios 1 & 2, Voyager 1&2, Giotto (Comet Halley), etc., and is currently a Goddard Senior Fellow at the Interplanetary Physics Branch, Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics at the Goddard Space Flight Center.If you’re at all interested in solar sailing and want to know ‘what the weather is like out there,’ and if you have a good background in physics and calculus, “Interplanetary Magnetohydrodynamics” presents a detailed picture of our Sun’s exotic and interesting environment.

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