An Introduction to Waves and Oscillations in the Sun - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- 1.1: Historical Perspectives.- 1.2: The Core of the Sun.- 1.3: Radiative Zone.- 1.4: Convection Zone.- 1.5: Photosphere.- 1.6: Chromosphere.- 1.7: Corona.- 1.8: Solar Wind.- Chapter 2: Electro-Magneto Statics.- 2.1: Charge and Current Distributions.- 2.2: Coulomb's Law.- 2.3: Gauss's Law.- 2.4: Ampere's Law.- 2.5: Faraday's Law.- 2.6: Vector Magnetic Potential.- 2.7: Maxwell's Equations.- Chapter 3: MHD Equations and Concepts.- 3.1: Assumptions.- 3.2: Dimensionless Parameters.- 3.3: Mass Continuity.- 3.4: Equations of Motion.- 3.5: Energy Equation.- 3.6: MHD Equilibrium.- 3.7: Magnetic Flux Tubes.- 3.8: Current-free (Potential) fields.- 3.9: Force-Free Fields.- 3.10: Parker's Solution for Solar Wind.- Chapter 4: Waves in Uniform Media.- 4.1: Basic Equations.- 4.2: SoundWaves.- 4.3: Alfv'enWaves.- 4.4: Shear Alfv'enWaves.- 4.5: Compressional Alfv'enWaves.- 4.6: Magneto acoustic Waves.- 4.7: Internal and Magneto acoustic Gravity Waves.- 4.8: Phase-Mixing and Resonant Absorption of Waves.- Chapter 5: Waves in Non-Uniform Media- 5.1: Waves at Magnetic Interface.- 5.2: Surface and InterfacialWaves.- 5.3: Waves in a Magnetic Slab.- 5.4: Waves in Cylindrical Geometries.- 5.5: Waves in Untwisted and Twisted Tubes.- Chapter 6: Instabilities.- 6.1: Introduction.- 6.2: Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) Instability.- 6.3: Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) Instability.- 6.4: Parametric Instability.- 6.5: Parker Instability.- Chapter 7: Waves in the Sun.- 7.1: Five minute oscillations.- 7.2: Oscillations in Sunspots.- 7.3: Chromospheric Oscillations.- 7.4: CoronalWaves.- 7.5: Coronal Seismology.- 7.6: Coronal Heating due to Waves.- 7.7: EIT and MoretonWaves.- Chapter 8: Heliosesimology.- 8.1: Equations of Motion.- 8.2: Equilibrium Structure.- 8.3: Perturbation Analysis.- 8.4: Acoustic Waves.- 8.5: Internal Gravity Waves.- 8.6: Equations of Linear Stellar Oscillations.- 8.7: Properties of Solar Oscillations (Internal).- 8.8: p and g modes.- References.- Index.

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