Solar System

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. 4.1.1.1 Solar global parameters; 4.1.1.2 Solar interior

   • Michael Stix

   Pages 1-13

3. 4.1.1.3 The solar energy spectrum

   • Klaus Wilhelm

   Pages 14-27

4. 4.1.1.4 Solar photosphere and chromosphere

   • Matthias Steffen

   Pages 28-86

5. 4.1.1.5 Solar transition region and quiet corona

   • Klaus Wilhelm

   Pages 87-102

6. 4.1.1.6 Radio emission of the quiet Sun

   • Arnold O. Benz

   Pages 103-115

7. 4.1.2.1 Active regions

   • Klaus Wilhelm

   Pages 116-123

8. 4.1.2.2 Solar activity cycle

   • Sami Solanki, Natalie Krivova

   Pages 124-140

9. 4.1.2.3 Sunspots

   • Sami Solanki, Natalie Krivova

   Pages 141-152

10. 4.1.2.4 Faculae and plague

    • Sami Solanki, Natalie Krivova

    Pages 153-164

11. 4.1.2.5 Prominences and ejecta

    • Klaus Wilhelm

    Pages 165-174

12. 4.1.2.6 Coronal active regions

    • Klaus Wilhelm

    Pages 175-179

13. 4.1.2.7 Flares

    • Klaus Wilhelm

    Pages 180-188

14. 4.1.2.8 Radio bursts of the non-thermal Sun

    • Arnold O. Benz

    Pages 189-203

15. 4.2.1 Introduction to ‘4.2 The planets and their satellites’

    • Tilman Spohn

    Pages 204-207

16. 4.2.2 Basic data of planetary bodies

    • H. Hussmann, F. Sohl, J. Oberst

    Pages 208-229

17. 4.2.3.1 Geodetic and geophysical data

    • M. Grott, H. Hussmann, J. Oberst, M. Wählisch

    Pages 230-252

18. 4.2.3.2 Planetary interiors

    • F. Sohl, F. W. Wagner, H. Hussmann, M. Grott

    Pages 253-281

19. 4.2.3.3 Planetary seismology

    • Martin Knapmeyer

    Pages 282-322

20. 4.2.3.4 Dynamics and thermal evolution

    • Doris Breuer

    Pages 323-344

The last few decades have been called the “Golden Age of Astronomy”. The rapid increase of knowledge in the field necessitates publishing a new edition of the Astronomy and Astrophysics volumes of the Landolt-Boernstein. The title is now “Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Cosmology”. Cosmology has been added in order to make allowances for the increasing role of extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology. The present volume VI/4B on the “Solar System” is the first to be published of the new series. Volume VI/4A on “Instruments and Methods” will follow soon. Additional volumes on “Stars”, the “Galaxy”, “Galaxies, Large Scale Structure and Cosmology” are in the planning stage. The previous volumes covering the Solar System appeared in 1965, 1981 and 1993. In the meantime multi-wavelength observations of the sun – by ground based and space borne telescopes – have produced a wealth of new data. The same is true for telescopic and/or in situ investigations of the planets, moons, asteroids, meteors, meteorites, interplanetary dust, solar wind etc. The use of units for physical quantities in the present volume follows largely the rules given by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), c.f. http://www.iau.org/science/publications/proceedings/_rules/units/, which favour the international system (SI) of units. However, the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system is used in some sections of the present volume, since it is still dominating in certain areas of astrophysics. A table with unit conversion of CGS to SI is given on the inside of the back cover of this book.

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• Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany

  J.E. Trümper

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