Multi-scale Dynamical Processes in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Magnetic Field Topology and Reconnection

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Field Line Topology and Rapid Reconnection

      • Eugene N. Parker

      Pages 3-9

   3. Acceleration of Energetic Particles through Reconnection of Weakly Stochastic Magnetic Field

      • Alexandre Lazarian, Grzegorz Kowal, B. Gouveia dal Pino, Ethan T. Vishniac

      Pages 11-21

   4. Dynamical Behaviors of the Solar Chromosphere Observed with Hinode Dynamics in Sunspot Light Bridges and Magnetic Reconnection Processes

      • Toshifumi Shimizu, Shinsuke Imada

      Pages 23-28

   5. Signatures of Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Eruptive Flares: A Multi-wavelength Perspective

      • Bhuwan Joshi, Astrid Veronig, P. K. Manoharan, Boris V. Somov

      Pages 29-41

   6. Energy Cascades in Large-Scale Solar Flare Reconnection

      • Miroslav Bárta, Jan Skála, Marian Karlický, Jörg Büchner

      Pages 43-48

   7. Plasmoids in Solar Flares and Their Radio and X-ray Signatures

      • Marian Karlický, Miroslav Bárta

      Pages 49-59

   8. Occurrence of Magnetic Reconnection in the Deep Magnetotail: ARTEMIS Results

      • Zoltán Vörös, Andrei Runov, Alexander Kendl

      Pages 61-66

3. Plasma Relaxation and Heating

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Relaxation and Heating Triggered by Nonlinear Kink Instability: Application to Solar Flares and Coronal Heating

      • Philippa K. Browning, Michael R. Bareford, Mykola Gordovskyy

      Pages 69-75

   3. Plasma Relaxation in Hall Magnetohydrodynamics

      • Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

      Pages 77-82

   4. Alfvén Waves in Dusty Proto-Stellar Accretion Disks

      • Aline de Almeida Vidotto, Vera Jatenco-Pereira

      Pages 83-87

4. Statistical Physics and Entropy Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Turbulent Equilibrium and Nonextensive Entropy

      • Peter H. Yoon

      Pages 91-96

   3. Modeling Space Plasma Dynamics with Anisotropic Kappa Distributions

      • M. Lazar, V. Pierrard, S. Poedts, R. Schlickeiser

      Pages 97-107

5. Waves, Shocks and Turbulence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in Partially Ionized Prominence Plasmas

      • Roberto Soler, Jose Luis Ballester

      Pages 111-121

   3. Alfvén Amplifier in the Solar Atmosphere

      • Youra Taroyan

      Pages 123-127

   4. Alfvénic Solitary and Shock Waves in Plasmas

      • Padma Kant Shukla, Bengt Eliasson, Lennart Stenflo

      Pages 129-141

Magnetized plasmas in the universe exhibit complex dynamical behavior over a huge range of scales. The fundamental mechanisms of energy transport, redistribution and conversion occur at multiple scales. The driving mechanisms often include energy accumulation, free-energy-excited relaxation processes, dissipation and self-organization. The plasma processes associated with energy conversion, transport and self-organization, such as magnetic reconnection, instabilities, linear and nonlinear waves, wave-particle interactions, dynamo processes, turbulence, heating, diffusion and convection represent fundamental physical effects. They demonstrate similar dynamical behavior in near-Earth space, on the Sun, in the heliosphere and in astrophysical environments. 'Multi-scale Dynamical Processes in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas' presents the proceedings of the International Astrophysics Forum Alpbach 2011. The contributions discuss the latest advances in the exploration of dynamical behavior in space plasmas environments, including comprehensive approaches to theoretical, experimental and numerical aspects. The book will appeal to researchers and students in the fields of physics, space and astrophysics, solar physics, geophysics and planetary science.

• Collisionless shocks
• Magnetic reconnection
• Particle acceleration in solar flares
• Plasma astrophysics
• RHESSI mission results
• Self-organization
• Solar flares
• Solar wind turbulence
• Space plasma book

• , Inst. of Astro- and Particle Physics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

  Manfred P. Leubner, Zoltán Vörös

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