Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Physical Processes in Solar Flares

  • Book
  • © 1992

Overview

Authors:
  1. Boris V. Somov

    1. Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 172)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. The Present State of the Solar Flare Problem

    • Boris V. Somov
    Pages 1-48

  3. Chromospheric Heating: The Mechanism Producing High-Temperature Plasma in Solar Flares

    • Boris V. Somov
    Pages 49-114

  4. Magnetic Reconnection and Energy Release in Solar Flares

    • Boris V. Somov
    Pages 115-217

  5. Conclusion

    • Boris V. Somov
    Pages 219-222

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 223-249
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Solar flares are very complex electromagnetic phenomena of a cataclysmic nature. Particles are accelerated to very high velocities and a variety of physical processes happen inside and outside flares. These processes can be studied by a large number of techniques from Earth and from space. The aim is to discover the physics behind solar flares. This goal is complicated because information about the flare mechanism can be obtained only in an indirect way by studying the secondary effects.
This book provides three stages in the solution of the solar flare problem. Chapter one describes the connection between observational data and theoretical concepts, where it is stressed that next to investigating flares, the related non-stationary large-scale phenomena must be studied as well. The second chapter deals with secondary physical processes, in particular the study of high-temperature plasma dynamics during impulsive heating. The last chapter presents a model built on the knowledge of the two previous chapters and it constructs a theory of non-neutral turbulent current sheets.
The author believes that this model will help to solve the problem of solar flares.
For solar physicists, plasma physicists, high-energy particle physicists.

Reviews

`But the book is most highly recommended to those who are unfamiliar with the truly substanial contribution of Somov to the solar flare problem.'
Solar Physics 144:203 (1993)
`Libraries would be well advised to stock this book.'
The Observatory 112:1111 (1992)
`The style of the book is otherwise clear and accessible. I would recommend this first section in particular to any graduate student about to embark on some aspect of the solar-flare problem...Libraries would be well advised to stock this book .'
The Observatory 112:1111 (1992)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia

    Boris V. Somov

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Physical Processes in Solar Flares

  • Authors: Boris V. Somov

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2396-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1261-1Published: 31 December 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5056-2Published: 27 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2396-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 249

  • Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation