Research Catalog

Title

The Sun as a star / Stuart Jordan, editor/author.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; Paris, France : Centre national de la recherche scientifique ; [Washington, D.C.] : [United States Government Printing Office] ; [Springfield, Va.] : [For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1981.

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Additional Authors

• Jordan, Stuart D.
• United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch.
• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France)

Description

liv, 518 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Series Statement

• Monograph series on nonthermal phenomena in stellar atmospheres
• NASA SP ; 450

Uniform Title

• Monograph series on nonthermal phenomena in stellar atmospheres
• NASA SP (Series) ; 450.

Subject

• Stars > Atmospheres
• Astrophysics
• astrophysics
• 39.51 sun
• Zon
• Sol
• Astrophysique
• Soleil
• Soleil > Atmosphère
• Soleil > Champ magnétique
• Étoiles > Atmosphères
• Sun

Genre/Form

Government publications – United States.

Note

• S/N 033-000-00830-9.
• Item 830-I.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Part I. Introduction. Introduction / Robert J. Rutten and Lawrence E. Cram -- Part II. Observations and Diagnostics. Dynamics of the solar photosphere / Jacques Maurice Beckers -- Pulsations and oscillations / Franz-Ludwig Deubner -- The chromosphere and transition region / R. Grant Athay -- The solar corona and the solar wind / Jack B. Zirker -- Solar magnetic structure and the solar activity cycle review of observational data / Cornelis Zwaan -- Solar flare observations and their interpretations / John C. Brown, Dean F. Smith, and Daniel S. Spicer -- Part III. Theoretical Interpretations. Global circulation and the solar dynamo / Peter A. Gilman -- Penetrative convection / Daniel R. Moore -- Oscillations and pulsations / John W. Leibacher and Robert F. Stein -- Wave generation / Robert F. Stein and John W. Leibacher -- Chromospheric heating / Stuart D. Jordan -- Mechanical heating in the transition region / George Withbroe -- Coronal heating / Donat G. Wentzel -- The energy balance of the solar wind / Joseph V. Hollweg -- Heating and acceleration of the solar wind / Roger A. Kopp -- Magnetic flux tubes / Hendrik C. Spruit -- Solar flare theory / Daniel S. Spicer and John C. Brown -- Part IV. Looking Ahead. The Sun as a star / Robert J. Rutten and Lawrence E. Cram.

LCCN

81600064

OCLC

• ocm07627768
• 7627768
• SCSB-8956162

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library