Lang Sun, Earth and Sky

1995
ISBN: 978-3-642-57852-6
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten, eBook

FROM THE REVIEWS "An excellent guide to present-day studies of the Sun and our stars impact on Earths space environmentcolorful (and useful) images and a thoughtful organization.A great read, written with enthusiasm and knowledge. " "An excellent guidea serious yet broadly accessible account of what science has learned about the Sun to date. With quotes from songs and poems, pictures ranging from impressionistic paintings to state-of-the-art photographs to computer graphics, this book is a delight."

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lang, Kenneth R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Good Day, Sunshine.- 1.1 The Rising Sun.- 1.2 Fire of Life.- 1.3 Sunlight.- 1.4 Daytime Star.- 1.5 Cosmic Laboratory.- 1.6 Ingredients of the Sun.- 1.7 Children of the Stars.- 1.8 Describing the Radiation.- 1.9 Invisible Fires.- 2 Energizing the Sun.- 2.1 Awesome Power, Enormous Times.- 2.2 The Sun’s Central Pressure Cooker.- 2.3 Nuclear Fusion, Anti-Matter and Hydrogen Burning.- 2.4 Diluting the Radiation.- 3 Ghostlike Neutrinos.- 3.1 The Elusive Neutrino.- 3.2 Neutrinos from the Sun.- 3.3 Detecting Almost Nothing.- 3.4 Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem.- 4 Taking the Pulse of the Sun.- 4.1 Trapped Sounds.- 4.2 Ode to the Sun.- 4.3 Looking Inside the Sun.- 4.4 Breaking the Symmetry.- 4.5 Back to the Future.- 5 A Magnetic Star.- 5.1 Islands of Intense Magnetism.- 5.2 Bipolar Sunspots, Magnetic Loops and Active Regions.- 5.3 Cycles of Magnetic Activity.- 5.4 Internal Dynamo.- 6 An Unseen World of Perpetual Change.- 6.1 The Sun’s Visible Edge Is an Illusion.- 6.2 The Million-Degree Corona.- 6.3 Closed Coronal Loops and Open Coronal Holes.- 6.4 The Dynamic Ever-Changing Corona.- 6.5 The Eternal Solar Wind.- 6.6 Ulysses.- 6.7 The Distant Frontier.- 7 The Violent Sun.- 7.1 Energetic Solar Activity.- 7.2 Solar Flares.- 7.3 Flare Radiation from Energetic Electrons.- 7.4 Energizing Solar Flares.- 7.5 Erupting Prominences.- 7.6 Coronal Mass Ejections.- 7.7 A Composite Model for Energetic Solar Activity.- 8 Energizing Space.- 8.1 The Ingredients of Space.- 8.2 Probing the Solar Wind.- 8.3 Earth’s Magnetic Cocoon.- 8.4 Penetrating Earth’s Magnetic Defense.- 8.5 Storing Invisible Particles Within Earth’s Magnetosphere.- 8.6 Active Experiments in Space.- 8.7 Northern and Southern Lights.- 8.8 Geomagnetic Storms.- 8.9 Astronauts and Satellites in Danger.- 8.10 Contemporary Solar-Terrestrial Research.- 9 Transforming the Earth’s Life-Sustaining Atmosphere.- 9.1 Fragile Planet Earth — The View from Space.- 9.2 The Life-Saving Greenhouse Effect.- 9.3 The Earth’s Changing Atmosphere.- 9.4 Our Sun-Layered Atmosphere.- 9.5 The Inconstant Sun.- 9.6 Solar Ultraviolet and Terrestrial Ozone.- 9.7 The Vanishing Ozone.- 9.8 Healing the Planet.- 10 Fire and Ice.- 10.1 Clear Skies and Stormy Weather.- 10.2 Turning on the Heat.- 10.3 Solar Radiation and Global Warming.- 10.4 Consequences of Overheating the Earth.- 10.5 Life in the Fast Lane.- 10.6 Over the Long Haul.- Quotation References.- Further Reading.- Author Index.