Heliophysics : active stars, their astrospheres, and impacts on planetary

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Full Title:: Heliophysics : active stars, their astrospheres, and impacts on planetary. / edited by Carolus J. Schrijver, Frances Bagenal and Jan J. Sojka

Variant Titles:: Heliophysics : Active Stars, their Astrospheres, & Impacts on Planetary Environments

Additional Author/Creators:: Schrijver, Carolus J., editor
Bagenal, Fran, 1954-, editor
Sojka, Jan J., editor

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.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (xiii, 383 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
General Note:: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2016).
Local Note:: Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.