Overview
- Maximizes reader insight into real-world observations and data through detailed discussions
- Presents critiques of space plasma models using both theory and cutting-edge observational data
- Provides step-by-step derivations of the equations presented, along with enlightening mathematical and historical asides
- Challenges the reader with critical questions relevant to the presented material
Part of the book series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library (AAL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- space plasma modeling
- data-based interpretation of space plasma physics
- space plasma observations
- critical evaluation of space plasma observations
- kinetic interpretation of space plasmas
- understanding plasma instruments
- cluster ion experiment
- collisionless shocks
- solar wind
- magnetosphere
- kinetic plasma models
- theoretical astrophysics
- fluid- and aerodynamics
About this book
This didactic book uses a data-driven approach to connect measurements made by plasma instruments to the real world. This approach makes full use of the instruments’ capability and examines the data at the most detailed level an experiment can provide. Students using this approach will learn what instruments can measure, and working with real-world data will pave their way to models consistent with these observations.
While conceived as a teaching tool, the book contains a considerable amount of new information. It emphasizes recent results, such as particle measurements made from the Cluster ion experiment, explores the consequences of new discoveries, and evaluates new trends or techniques in the field. At the same time, the author ensures that the physical concepts used to interpret the data are general and widely applicable. The topics included help readers understand basic problems fundamental to space plasma physics. Some are appearing for the first timein a space physics textbook. Others present different perspectives and interpretations of old problems and models that were previously considered incontestable. This book is essential reading for graduate students in space plasma physics, and a useful reference for the broader astrophysics community.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Characterizing Space Plasmas
Book Subtitle: A Data Driven Approach
Authors: George K. Parks
Series Title: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90041-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90040-7Published: 06 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07922-2Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90041-4Published: 26 July 2018
Series ISSN: 0941-7834
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9698
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 332
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Plasma Physics, Solar and Heliospheric Physics , Theoretical Astrophysics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics