Solar-type activity in main-sequence stars

Author(s)

• Gershberg, Roald
• Knyazeva, S. (Svetlana)

Bibliographic Information

Solar-type activity in main-sequence stars

R.E. Gershberg ; translated by S. Knyazeva

（Astronomy and astrophysics library）

Springer, c2005

Note

Bibliography: p. [433]-487

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The first comprehensive monograph on this active and productive field of research investigates solar-type activity amongst the large spectrum of low- and middle-mass main sequence stars, and presents the subject in a systematic and comprehensive fashion.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Flare Stars in a Quiescent State: General Characteristics of Flare Stars.- Photospheres.- Chromospheres and Transition Regions.- Coronae and Stellar Winds.- Heating Mechanisms for Stellar Atmospheres.- Flares: General Description of Stellar Flares.- Temporal Characteristics of Flares.- Flare Energy.- Dynamics and Radiation Mechanisms of Flares.- Models of Stellar Flares.- Long-Term Variations in Activity of Flare Stars: Activity Cycles.- Evolutionary Changes.- Conclusion: Activity and Subphotospheric Magnetic Fields.- Activity and Magnetism of Stellar Atmospheres.- References.

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Details

• NCID: BA72919053
• ISBN:
  • 3540212442
• Country Code: gw
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: rus
• Place of Publication: Berlin
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 494 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01023708