Overview
- Offers tutorial chapters introducing basic
- concepts of comic plasma structure formation as well as deep original reviews of the current status of observations and theory
- Constitutes a coordinated and coherent collection of reviews by leading scientists in this wide-ranging field of astrophysics and cosmology
- Includes the broadest existing coverage of the origin and the dynamics of cosmic plasma structures in all astrophysical contexts, such as recently discovered structures like the cold fronts in dark matter dominated clusters of galaxies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI (SSSI, volume 51)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Plasma structures
- Different formations of plasma structure
- Processes of structure formation in cosmic plasmas
- Magnetic structures in planet magnetospheres
- Relativistic plasma outflows
- Structure formation and evolution of large scale magnetic fields
- Plasma physics of Earth’s magnetosphere
- Cosmic electrodynamics
- Plasma structures in heliosphere and interstellar medium
- Plasma structures in dark matter dominated systems
- Cluster galaxies and plasma structure
About this book
This book offers eleven coordinated reviews on multi-scale structure formation in cosmic plasmas in the Universe. Observations and theories of plasma structures are presented in all relevant astrophysical contexts, from the Earth’s magnetosphere through heliospheric and galactic scales to clusters of galaxies and the large scale structure of the Universe. Basic processes in cosmic plasmas starting from electric currents and the helicity concept governing the dynamics of magnetic structures in planet magnetospheres, stellar winds, and relativistic plasma outflows like pulsar wind nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei jets are covered.
The multi-wavelength view from the radio to gamma-rays with modern high resolution telescopes discussed in the book reveals a beautiful and highly informative picture of both coherent and chaotic plasma structures tightly connected by strong mutual influence. The authors are all leading scientists in their fields, making this book an authoritative, up‐to‐date and enduring contribution to astrophysics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andrei Bykov is head of the High Energy Astrophysics laboratory in the Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology, 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, a book Turbulence, Current Sheets and Shocks in Cosmic Plasma and editor of four books on high energy astrophysics.
Jonathan Eastwood is a lecturer in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London where he is a member of the Space and Atmospheric Physics research group. He has previously worked at UC Berkeley and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In 2012 he was the recipient of the COSPAR Zeldovich medal (Commission D) in recognition of his research into the physics of magnetic reconnection and collisionless shocks using satellite data.
Jelle Kaastra (PhD 1985, Utrecht University) is a senior scientist at SRON, the Netherlands Institute for Space Research and professor of high-energy astrophysics at Leiden University. He is an expert on high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of cosmic plasmas, and is currently principal investigator of the Reflection Grating Spectrometer on XMM-Newton and the Low-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer on Chandra. He has an active track record on clusters of galaxies, active galactic nuclei and X-ray models for cosmic plasmas.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multi-scale Structure Formation and Dynamics in Cosmic Plasmas
Editors: Andre Balogh, Andrei Bykov, Jonathan Eastwood, Jelle Kaastra
Series Title: Space Sciences Series of ISSI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3547-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3546-8Published: 03 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8074-1Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-3547-5Published: 02 February 2016
Series ISSN: 1385-7525
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 357
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 118 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Originally published in Space Science Reviews, Vol. 188, Issues 1-4, 2015
Topics: Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Plasma Physics