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ISBN Number: 9780521548212
Editor: King, Andrew
Editor: Lin, Douglas
Written by: Lin, Douglas
Written by: King, Andrew
Written by: Pringle, Jim
Written by: Wilson, Peter R.
Written by: Ward, Martin
Written by: Maran, Stephen
Editor: King, Andrew
Editor: Lin, Douglas
Published by: Libri
Location: Cambridge
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Series: Cambridge Astrophysics
Series Volume: 24
Date of Publication: November 2003
Cover Type: Paperback
Grade Level: Professional and scholarly
Written in: English
Illustrations: 43 line diagrams 28 half-tones 24 gr
Number of Pages: 292
Book Size: 9.69x7.44x.62 in. 1.17 lbs.
How do you predict the parameters of future solar cycles? What is the role of dynamo theory in the cyclic activity of the Sun and similar stars? And what are the implications of chaos theory for stellar cycles? This book answers these questions and offers a timely review of studies in the cyclic activity of the Sun and other stars. This authoritative reference shows the importance of reliable predictions of the parameters of future solar cycles, and carefully explains the methods currently used to determine these (with special reference to the maximum of cycle 22). Some of the latest research into solar cycles is clearly presented; this includes helioseismology, observations of the extended activity cycle and the polar fields reversal, and contributions from dynamo theory and chaos theory. For graduate students and researchers, this monograph provides a much-needed synthesis of our understanding of activity cycles in the Sun and other stars. Review:
"...an excellent introduction to the subject of solar-stellar activity for graduate students and non-specialists." Steve Skinner, COOLNEWS"...Wilson has provided the university student and postgraduate with a perfect mixture of what is known and what is still to be found out. There are detailed discussions about topics, such as coronal holes, polar reversals, large-scale fields, non-linear dynamos, helioseismology, isorotational surfaces, the question of whether the sunspot cycle is chaotic, activity predictions and the general aperiodicity of solar activity. Not only is the book produced, illustrated and referenced to the high quality of the Cambridge Astrophysics Series, it is also extremely readable." Nature"...contains current material and therefore is a necessary purchase for libraries that serve researchers and professionals in astrophysics." Choice"...ably recounts the story of our search for understanding how the sun produces its spots and its stumbling cycle of magnetic activity....makes interesting reading. It describes engagingly and with authority the complex phenomena associated with solar and stellar activity cycles, and the various attempts to construct analytic or numeric 'models' describing how the cycle works....[A]ny reader will get a good feel for the history, excitement, and present state of the search to understand what makes the sun and similar stars behave the way they do." Robert W. Noyes, Science
Synopsis:
A timely and authoritative synthesis of our understanding of activity cycles in the Sun and similar stars for graduate students and researchers.
