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Item Details
Title:
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MAGNETIC RECONNECTION
THEORETICAL AND OBSERVATIONAL PERSPECTIVES |
By: |
William Lewis, Spiro Antiochos (Editor), James Drake (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£109.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1461430453 |
ISBN 13: |
9781461430452 |
Publisher: |
SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC. |
Pub. date: |
31 December, 2011 |
Edition: |
2012 ed. |
Pages: |
168 |
Description: |
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma-physical process which converts energy stored in magnetic fields into heat and kinetic energy. Here, researchers present the latest theoretical and observational results relating to central issues in the field. |
Synopsis: |
This volume covers different aspects of recent theoretical and observational work on magnetic reconnection, a fundamental plasma-physical process by which energy stored in magnetic field is converted, often explosively, into heat and kinetic energy. This collection of papers from the fields of solar and space physics, astrophysics, and laboratory plasma physics is especially timely in view of NASA's upcoming Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, which will use Earth's magetosphere as a laboratory to test, through in-situ measurement of the plasma, energetic particles, and electric and magnetic fields, the various and sometimes competing models and theories of magnetic reconnection. This volume is aimed at researchers in solar physics, magnetospheric physics and plasma physics. Previously published in Space Science Reviews journal, Vol. 160/1-4, 2011. |
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V, 168 p. |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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