Multi-Scale Physics in Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration: From the Sun into the Inner Heliosphere [Paperback]

This volume explores the cross-linkages between the kinetic processes and macroscopic phenomena in the solar atmosphere, which are at the heart of our current understanding of the heating of the closed and open corona and the acceleration of the solar wind. The focus lies on novel data, on theoretical models that have observable consequences through remote sensing, and on near-solar and inner-heliosphere observations, such as anticipated by the upcoming Solar Orbiter and Solar Probe missions, which are currently developed by the international community.

This volume is aimed at students and researchers active in solar physics and space science.

Previously published in Space Science Reviews journal, Vol. 172, Nos. 1-4, 2012.

From the Contents: UVCS Observations of Temperature and Velocity Profiles in Coronal Holes.- Helios: Evolution of Distribution Functions 0.3-1 AU.- Sources of Solar Wind at Solar Minimum: Constraints from Composition Data.- SUMER Observations of Coronal-Hole Temperatures.- Recent Observations of Plasma and Alfvenic Wave Energy Injection at the Base of the Fast Solar Wind.David Burgess is a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests include space and astrophysical plasma physics; shocks and turbulence in collisionless plasmas; and large scale, highly parallel plasma simulation. He is the co-investigator on three instruments on the ESA Solar Orbiter mission.

James Drake is a professor of physics and the University of Maryland College Park. He earned his bachelors degree from UCLA and remained at UCLA to complete his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1975. After completing his doctorate, Professor Drake remained at UCLA for a brief time as a post-doctoral scholar and then moved to the University of Maryland first as a post-doctoral scholar and then as a member of the teaching faculty in the Department of Physics and thelS2