Stellar Magnetism

Zusatztext a spectacularly good job ... an amazing achievement. ... Perhaps the greatest strength of this book is in the clarity of the exposition and the ease of reading. Professor Mestel has an engaging style, which makes the 700 pages seem much less. This means that, in addition to being an invaluable reference book that can be dipped into, the book can easily be read straight-forwardly from start to finish. ... I am sure that this, now up-to-date, treatise will remain the book of choice in this field for a number of years to come. Informationen zum Autor Leon Mestel is Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at the University of Sussex. Mestel has also taught at the University of Cambridge, Princeton University, the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth, Israel, the University of Manchester, and the Racah Institue at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has established himself as one of the leaders in his field. Klappentext Stellar magnetism is the study of the magnetic field of the Sun and other stars and is a rapidly developing field of astrophysics. This book has grown out of the lifelong work of an outstanding researcher in the subject. It is an authoritative account with broad astronomical scope with a thorough, careful, and well-argued approach. Zusammenfassung Ongoing studies in mathematical depth, and inferences from `helioseismological' observations of the internal solar rotation have shown up the limitations in our knowledge of the solar interior and of our understanding of the solar dynamo, manifested in particular by the sunspot cycle, the Maunder minimum, and solar flares. This second edition retains the identical overall structure as the first edition, but is designed so as to be self-contained with the early chapters presenting the basic physics and mathematics underlying cosmical magnetohydrodynamics, followed by studies of the specific applications appropriate for a book devoted to a central area in astrophysics....

Product details

• Authors: Leon Mestel, Leon (Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Mestel, Mestel Leon
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.05.2012
• EAN: 9780199641741
• ISBN: 978-0-19-964174-1
• No. of pages: 754
• Series: International Series of Monographs on Physics; International Series of Monogr; International Series of Monogr; International Series of Monographs on Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Kosmologie und das Universum, Science, Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity, SCIENCE / Physics / Magnetism, SCIENCE / Cosmology, SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, Relativity physics, Solar system: the Sun & planets, Solar system: the Sun and planets, Galaxies & stars, Galaxies and stars, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism