Editors:
- Offers broad coverage of the origin and the role played by large-scale magnetic fields in the Universe
- Includes discussion of both magnetic field observations and magnetic field theoretical background in various astrophysical contexts
- Provides a coordinated, up-to-date collection of reviews by leading scientists in the field
Part of the book series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI (SSSI, volume 39)
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astrophysics.
This volume is aimed at graduate students and researchers in astrophysics.
Previously published in Space Science Reviews journal, Vol. 166/1-4 and Vol. 169/1-4, 2012.
Keywords
- Astrophysical Magnetic Fields
- Cosmic Magnetic Fields
- Cosmic Rays in Magnetic Fields
- Extragalactic Magnetic Fields
- Galactic Magnetic Fields
- Large-scale Magnetic Fields
- Magnetic Fields in Astrophysical Jets
- Magnetic Fields in Stellar Winds
Editors and Affiliations
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Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany
Rainer Beck
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The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
Andre Balogh
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Ioffe Institute of Physics &Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg, Russia
D. V. Bykov
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International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland
Rudolf A. Treumann
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Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Lawrence Widrow
About the editors
Prof. André Balogh is Emeritus Professor of Space Physics in Imperial College London and a past Director of the International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland. He has participated in numerous scientific space missions since the mid‐1960s and has been a Principal Investigator on the Ulysses and Cluster missions. His principal research interest is the observation and study of magnetic fields in the heliosphere and in planetary environments. He is author and co‐author of over 450 scientific publications and editor of seven books on solar system topics.
Prof. Andrei Bykov is head of the High Energy Astrophysics laboratory at the Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology at the Russian Academy of Sciences; and professor of St. Petersburg State Politechnical University. His principal research interests are theory and observations of processes in astrophysical objects with extreme energy release ‐ supernovae, gamma‐ray bursts and clusters of galaxies. He is author and coauthor of over 200 scientific publications, including the book ‘Turbulence, Current Sheets and Shocks in Cosmic Plasma’ and editor of four books on high energy astrophysics.
Prof. Rudolf Treumann is a retired faculty member from the Department of Geophysics and Environmental Sciences at Ludwig‐Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. He has published widely on plasma physics and astrophysical topics. He is an author of a two‐volume textbook on space plasma physics and coeditor of several books on fundamental physics and astrophysics.
Lawrence Widrow is a Professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. His research interests include the physics of the early Universe, the structure of dark matter halos, particle physics candidates of dark matter, and galactic dynamics. He
is author and co‐author of nearly 100 scientific publications.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Large-scale Magnetic Fields in the Universe
Editors: Rainer Beck, Andre Balogh, D. V. Bykov, Rudolf A. Treumann, Lawrence Widrow
Series Title: Space Sciences Series of ISSI
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5727-5Published: 04 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9071-6Published: 09 November 2014
Series ISSN: 1385-7525
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 406
Additional Information: Previously published in Space Science Reviews, Vol. 166/1-4 and Vol. 169/1-4, 2012.