Hot Thin Plasmas in Astrophysics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Radiative Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Radiation from Hot, Thin Plasmas

      • John C. Raymond

      Pages 3-20

   3. Diagnostic Techniques for Hot Thin Astrophysical Plasmas

      • F. Bely-Dubau

      Pages 21-32

3. X-Ray Instrumentation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. Instrumentation for the Study of Cosmic X-Ray Plasmas

      • Herbert W. Schnopper

      Pages 35-64

   3. Systematic Errors in the Determination of X-Ray Spectrum Parameters and the Calibration of Space Experiments

      • Martin V. Zombeck

      Pages 65-75

4. Solar and Stellar Coronae

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. The Solar Corona

      • A. H. Gabriel

      Pages 79-95

   3. Ultraviolet Stellar Spectroscopy

      • C. Jordan

      Pages 97-108

   4. X-ray Emission from Normal Stars

      • J. H. M. M. Schmitt

      Pages 109-120

   5. Some Exosat Results on Stellar Coronae

      • R. Pallavicini

      Pages 121-138

   6. The Magnetic Fields on Cool Stars and Their Correlation with Chromospheric and Coronal Emission

      • Steven H. Saar

      Pages 139-146

   7. Re-Analysis of the Coronal Emission from RS CVn Type Binaries

      • Osman Demircan

      Pages 147-154

5. Related (Optically-Thick) Stellar Sources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. High Resolution Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy of Hot White Dwarfs

      • Frits Paerels, John Heise

      Pages 157-166

   3. Pulsating White Dwarfs

      • M. A. Barstow

      Pages 167-176

   4. Radiation from Gas Envelopes Around Be Stars

      • Krishna M. V. Apparao, S. P. Tarafdar

      Pages 177-182

6. Supernova Remnants and the Hot Interstellar Medium

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. X-Ray Observations of Hot Thin Plasma in Supernova Remnants

      • B. Aschenbach

      Pages 185-196

This volume contains all but one of the lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on HOI Thin Plasmas in Astrophysics held in Cargese, Corsica, from September 8 to 18, 1987. The meeting was planned in collaboration with the members of the Scientific Organizing Committee, 10 whom I am grateful for suggesting a comprehensive and well balanced program. The SOC was comprised of Prof. J. Bleeker (Space Research Institute. Utrecht, The Netherlands), Dr. C. Cesarsky (CEN Saclay, France), Dr. R. Mushotzky (GSFC, USA), Prof. K. Pounds (University of Leicester, UK), Prof. H. Schnopper (Danish Space Research Laboratory, Denmark), Dr. H. Tananbaum (Center for Astrophysics, USA), Dr. G. Trinchieri (Arcetri Observatory, Italy), and Prof. 1. Truemper (MPE, Garching, Germany). The ASI, fully supported by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division, was organized with the intent of providing a critical and up-to-date overview of our present kowledge and understanding of the properties of hot thin plasmas in astrophysics as they are revealed by X-ray observations from space. The X-ray and UV emission from optically thin thermal plasmas is a common feature of many astrophysical systems. This type of emission occurs in the solar corona and in the coronae of other stars, in supernova remnants and in the hot interstellar medium, in normal galaxies and galactic halos, and in the intergalactic gas in clusters.

• Galaxy
• LOPES
• Libration
• Supernova
• astronomy
• astrophysics
• galaxies
• observatory
• spectroscopy
• stellar
• x-ray spectroscopy

• Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy

  Roberto Pallavicini

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