Overview
- Covers a wide range of aspects of stellar environments
- Includes the timely topic of space weather
- Based on course-tested lectures
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 857)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Sun as a Star: Its Environment
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Front Matter
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Tides in Planetary Systems and Massive Stars
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Front Matter
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Interferometric and Other Techniques to Peer Inside Stellar Environments
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Based on lectures given at a CNRS summer school in France, this book covers many aspects of stellar environments (both observational and theoretical) and offers a broad overview of the field. More specifically, Part I of the book focuses on the Sun, the properties of the ejected plasma, of the solar wind and on space weather. The second part deals with tides in planetary systems and in binary stellar systems, as well as with interactions in massive binary stars as seen by interferometry. Finally the chapters of Part III discuss the environments of young or evolved stars, stellar winds, agnetic fields and disks. With its broad approach the book will provide advanced students as well as researchers with a good overview of the environments of the Sun and the stars.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Environments of the Sun and the Stars
Editors: Jean-Pierre Rozelot, Coralie Neiner
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30648-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-30647-1Published: 18 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-30648-8Published: 17 August 2012
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 253
Number of Illustrations: 131 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Planetology, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)