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Heliophysics: Active Stars, their Astrospheres, and Impacts on Planetary Environments

Title
Heliophysics: Active Stars, their Astrospheres, and Impacts on Planetary Environments / edited by Carolus J. Schrijver, Frances Bagenal, Jan J. Sojka.
Publication
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors
  • Schrijver, Carolus J.
  • Bagenal, Frances
  • Sojka, Jan J.
Description
1 online resource (406 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Summary
Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. This volume, the fourth in the Heliophysics collection, explores what makes the conditions on Earth 'just right' to sustain life, by comparing Earth to other solar system planets, by comparing solar magnetic activity to that of other stars, and by looking at the properties of evolving exoplanet systems. By taking an interdisciplinary approach and using comparative heliophysics, the authors illustrate how we can learn about our local cosmos by looking beyond it, and in doing so, also enable the converse. Supplementary online resources are provided, including lecture presentations, problem sets and exercise labs, making this ideal as a textbook for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, as well as a foundational reference for researchers in the many subdisciplines of helio- and astrophysics.
Alternative Title
Heliophysics: Active Stars, their Astrospheres, & Impacts on Planetary Environments
Note
  • Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 May 2016).
OCLC
CR9781316106778
Title
Heliophysics: Active Stars, their Astrospheres, and Impacts on Planetary Environments / edited by Carolus J. Schrijver, Frances Bagenal, Jan J. Sojka.
Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
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Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Schrijver, Carolus J., editor.
Bagenal, Frances, editor.
Sojka, Jan J., editor.
Other Form:
Print version: 9781107090477
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