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Characterizing Space Plasmas

Author : George K. Parks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319900412
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Characterizing Space Plasmas written by George K. Parks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This didactic book uses a data-driven approach to connect measurements made by plasma instruments to the real world. This approach makes full use of the instruments’ capability and examines the data at the most detailed level an experiment can provide. Students using this approach will learn what instruments can measure, and working with real-world data will pave their way to models consistent with these observations. While conceived as a teaching tool, the book contains a considerable amount of new information. It emphasizes recent results, such as particle measurements made from the Cluster ion experiment, explores the consequences of new discoveries, and evaluates new trends or techniques in the field. At the same time, the author ensures that the physical concepts used to interpret the data are general and widely applicable. The topics included help readers understand basic problems fundamental to space plasma physics. Some are appearing for the first time in a space physics textbook. Others present different perspectives and interpretations of old problems and models that were previously considered incontestable. This book is essential reading for graduate students in space plasma physics, and a useful reference for the broader astrophysics community.

Measurement Techniques in Space Plasmas

Author : Robert F. Pfaff
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
ISBN 13 : 0875900852
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Measurement Techniques in Space Plasmas written by Robert F. Pfaff and published by American Geophysical Union. This book was released on 1998-02-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 102. Space plasma measurements are conducted in a hostile, remote environment. The art and science of measurements gathered in space depend therefore on unique instrument designs and fabrication methods to an extent perhaps unprecedented in experimental physics. In-situ measurement of space plasmas constitutes an expensive, unforgiving, and highly visible form of scientific endeavor.

Physics Of Space Plasmas

Author : George Parks
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813341293
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Physics Of Space Plasmas written by George Parks and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2003-12-05 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its inaugural edition, Physics of Space Plasmas was the most widely used textbook for courses in space plasma physics, and included up-to-date observations from space available at the time. Throughout universities in the United States and abroad-it has proven itself indispensable. In the more than ten years since, an amazing number of new space plasma observations have been made. These more recent observations have revealed new and exciting information about space plasma. Now, incorporating new information from several NASA and ESA space missions, the completely revised second edition is expanded to include kinetic physics so that kinetic features in the plasma data can be explained more clearly. In addition, Parks now includes a clear and simple discussion of how electromagnetic fields behave in rotating frames. This thoroughly revised second edition retains the thoughtful examples and problems of the first edition and expands to include new examples, problem sets, schematic diagrams, and images that complement the new material.

Measurement Techniques in Space Plasmas

Author : Robert F. Pfaff
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
ISBN 13 : 0875900860
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Measurement Techniques in Space Plasmas written by Robert F. Pfaff and published by American Geophysical Union. This book was released on 1998-02-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 103. Space plasma measurements are conducted in a hostile, remote environment. The art and science of measurements gathered in space depend therefore on unique instrument designs and fabrication methods to an extent perhaps unprecedented in experimental physics. In-situ measurement of space plasmas constitutes an expensive, unforgiving, and highly visible form of scientific endeavor.

An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity

Author : Tom Tien Sun Chang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316239543
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity written by Tom Tien Sun Chang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Space Plasma Complexity considers select examples of complexity phenomena related to observed plasma processes in the space environment, such as those pertaining to the solar corona, the interplanetary medium, and Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. This book provides a guided tour of the ideas behind forced and/or self-organized criticality, intermittency, multifractals, and the theory of the dynamic renormalization group, with applications to space plasma complexity. There is much to be explored and studied in this relatively new and developing field. Readers will be able to apply the concepts and methodologies espoused in this introduction to their own research interests and activities.

Understanding Spacecraft Electrical Anomalies

Author : Nicolas Nik Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Spacecraft Electrical Anomalies written by Nicolas Nik Lee and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small meteoroids, with masses less than a microgram, are common within the solar system and routinely impact spacecraft. In Earth orbit, human-made debris also presents a risk of impact. This thesis provides the first characterization of the threat of electrical damage from these hypervelocity impacts. When an impactor encounters a spacecraft (typically at 60 km/s for meteoroids or 10 km/s for debris), its kinetic energy is converted over a very short timescale into energy of vaporization and ionization, resulting in a small, dense plasma. This plasma can produce radio frequency (RF) emission, causing electrical anomalies within the spacecraft. The behavior of hypervelocity impact plasmas was studied through ground-based experiments and a corresponding plasma expansion model to interpret the data. The experiments were conducted using a Van de Graaff dust accelerator at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. Impacts of iron projectiles ranging from 0.1 fg to 10 pg at speeds of up to 70 km/s were studied using a variety of target materials. Novel plasma sensors were designed and built to characterize the plasma expansion from impacts on these targets under a range of surface charging conditions representative of space environment effects. Impact plasmas associated with bare metal targets as well as spacecraft materials were studied. The expansion behavior of the impact plasma was found to depend strongly on the surface charge of the target. From a correlation of experimental measurements with theoretical models, the dependence of plasma composition and temperature on target material, impact speed, and surface charge was analyzed. This work includes three major results. First, the initial temperature of the impact plasma is at least an order of magnitude lower than previously reported, providing conditions more favorable for sustained RF emission. Second, the composition of impact plasmas from glass targets, unlike that of impact plasmas from tungsten, has low dependence on impact speed, indicating a charge production mechanism that is significant down to orbital debris speeds. Finally, negative ion formation has a strong dependence on target material. These new results can inform the design and operation of satellites in order to prevent impact-related electrical anomalies. Since spacecraft charging is strongly dependent on orientation and surface material, deleterious electrical effects of hypervelocity impacts can be mitigated through design and operational practices that account for the influence of spacecraft geometry and the space environment on the behavior of impact plasmas.

Basic Space Plasma Physics (Revised Edition)

Author : Wolfgang Baumjohann
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1911298682
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis Basic Space Plasma Physics (Revised Edition) by : Wolfgang Baumjohann

Download or read book Basic Space Plasma Physics (Revised Edition) written by Wolfgang Baumjohann and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook begins with a description of the Earth's plasma environment, followed by the derivation of single particle motions in electromagnetic fields, with applications to the Earth's magnetosphere. Also discussed are the origin and effects of collisions and conductivities, formation of the ionosphere, magnetospheric convection and dynamics, and solar wind-magnetosphere coupling.The second half of the book presents a more theoretical foundation of plasma physics, starting with kinetic theory. Introducing moments of distribution function permits the derivation of the fluid equations, followed by an analysis of fluid boundaries, with the Earth's magnetopause and bow shock as examples, and finally, fluid and kinetic theory are applied to derive the relevant wave modes in a plasma.This revised edition seamlessly integrates new sections on magnetopause reconstruction, as well as instability theory and thermal fluctuations based on new developments in space physics. Applications such as the important problems of collisionless reconnection and collisionless shocks are covered, and some problems have also been included at the end of each chapter.

Theory of Space Plasma Microinstabilities

Author : S. Peter Gary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521431675
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Space Plasma Microinstabilities written by S. Peter Gary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the linear theory of waves and instabilities that propagate in a collisionless plasma.

Space-Time Characterization of Laser Plasma Interactions in the Warm Dense Matter Regime

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book Space-Time Characterization of Laser Plasma Interactions in the Warm Dense Matter Regime written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laser plasma interaction experiments have been performed using a fs Titanium Sapphire laser. Plasmas have been generated from planar PMMA targets using single laser pulses with 3.3 mJ pulse energy, 50 fs pulse duration at 800 nm wavelength. The electron density distributions of the plasmas in different delay times have been characterized by means of Nomarski Interferometry. Experimental data were compared with hydrodynamic simulation. First results to characterize the plasma density and temperature as a function of space and time are obtained. This work aims to generate plasmas in the warm dense matter (WDM) regime at near solid-density in an ultra-fast laser target interaction process. Plasmas under these conditions can serve as targets to develop x-ray Thomson scattering as a plasma diagnostic tool, e.g., using the VUV free-electron laser (FLASH) at DESY Hamburg.

Characterization of Magnetospheric Spacecraft Charging Environments Using the Lanl Magnetospheric Plasma Analyzer Data Set

Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721137657
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Characterization of Magnetospheric Spacecraft Charging Environments Using the Lanl Magnetospheric Plasma Analyzer Data Set written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An improved specification of the plasma environment has been developed for use in modeling spacecraft charging. It was developed by statistically analyzing a large part of the LANL Magnetospheric Plasma Analyzer (MPA) data set for ion and electron spectral signature correlation with spacecraft charging, including anisotropies. The objective is to identify a relatively simple characterization of the full particle distributions that yield an accurate predication of the observed charging under a wide variety of conditions. Hardage, Donna (Technical Monitor) and Davis, V. A. and Mandell, M. J. and Thomsen, M. F. Marshall Space Flight Center NASA Order H-32492-D

Collisionless Shocks in Space Plasmas

Author : David Burgess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521514592
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Collisionless Shocks in Space Plasmas written by David Burgess and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging introduction to collisionless shocks in space plasmas, presenting a complete review, from first principles to current research.

Turbulence in Space Plasmas

Author : Loukas Vlahos
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642002102
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Turbulence in Space Plasmas written by Loukas Vlahos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, many leading European graduate schools in the field of astrophysical and space plasmas have operated within the framework of the research network, "Theory, Observations, and Simulations in Turbulence in Space Plasmas." This text is a set of lectures and tutorial reviews culled from the relevant work of all those schools. It emphasizes applications on solar coronae, solar flares, and the solar wind. In bridging the gap between standard textbook material and state-of-the-art research, this text offers a broad flavor to postgraduate and postdoctoral students just coming to the field. And because of its unique mix, it will also be useful to lecturers looking for advanced teaching material for their seminars and courses.

Kappa Distributions

Author : George Livadiotis
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128046392
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Kappa Distributions written by George Livadiotis and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kappa Distributions: Theory and Applications in Plasmas presents the theoretical developments of kappa distributions, their applications in plasmas, and how they affect the underpinnings of our understanding of space and plasma physics, astrophysics, and statistical mechanics/thermodynamics. Separated into three major parts, the book covers theoretical methods, analytical methods in plasmas, and applications in space plasmas. The first part of the book focuses on basic aspects of the statistical theory of kappa distributions, beginning with their connection to the solid backgrounds of non-extensive statistical mechanics. The book then moves on to plasma physics, and is devoted to analytical methods related to kappa distributions on various basic plasma topics, spanning linear/nonlinear plasma waves, solitons, shockwaves, and dusty plasmas. The final part of the book deals with applications in space plasmas, focusing on applications of theoretical and analytical developments in space plasmas from the heliosphere and beyond, in other astrophysical plasmas. Kappa Distributions is ideal for space, plasma, and statistical physicists; geophysicists, especially of the upper atmosphere; Earth and planetary scientists; and astrophysicists. Answers important questions, such as how plasma waves are affected by kappa distributions and how solar wind, magnetospheres, and other geophysical, space, and astrophysical plasmas can be modeled using kappa distributions Presents the features of kappa distributions in the context of plasmas, including how kappa indices, temperatures, and densities vary among the species populations in different plasmas Provides readers with the information they need to decide which specific formula of kappa distribution should be used for a certain occasion and system (toolbox)

Development and Characterization of Low-Power Plasma Facilities for Space Applications

Author : Helmut Koch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783843951616
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Development and Characterization of Low-Power Plasma Facilities for Space Applications written by Helmut Koch and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waves in Dusty Space Plasmas

Author : Frank Verheest
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401099456
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Waves in Dusty Space Plasmas written by Frank Verheest and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume a thorough review is given of waves in dusty plasmas, a fascinating new domain combining plasmas and charged dust, two omnipresent ingredients of the Universe. Spokes and braids observed in the rings of Saturn cannot be explained by gravitation alone, but need the presence of charged dust. Other examples abound, as in zodiacal light, noctilucent clouds, comets and molecular clouds. After discussing charging mechanisms, supported by exciting new experiments, and space observations, the book describes extensions of known plasma modes covering the low frequencies typical for charged dust. Mixing detailed theoretical steps with summaries of expert contributions, a systematic multi-species treatment puts the literature in perspective, suitable also for newcomers. Typical complications like fluctuating dust charges, self-gravitational effects, and size distributions are dealt with, before ending with an outlook to future work and open questions. In this way, experts as well as interested newcomers will find a reliable guide, not just a compendium.

Physics of Space Plasma Activity

Author : Karl Schindler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460358
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Physics of Space Plasma Activity written by Karl Schindler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space plasma is so hot that the atoms break up into charged particles which then become trapped and stored in magnetic fields. When critical conditions are reached the magnetic field breaks up, releasing a large amount of energy and causing dramatic phenomena. The largest space plasma activity events observed in the solar system occur on the Sun, when coronal mass ejections expel several billion tons of plasma mass into space. This book provides a coherent and detailed treatment of the physical background of large plasma eruptions in space. It provides the background necessary for dealing with space plasma activity, and allows the reader to reach a deeper understanding of this fascinating natural event. The book employs both fluid and kinetic models, and discusses the applications to magnetospheric and solar activity. This will form an interesting reference for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of astrophysics and plasma physics.

Physics Of Space Plasmas

Author : George K Parks
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000231593
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Physics Of Space Plasmas written by George K Parks and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook was developed to provide seniors and first-year graduate students in physical sciences with a general knowledge of electrodynamic phenomena in space. Since the launch of the first unmanned satellite in 1957, experiments have been performed to study the behavior of electromagnetic fields and charged particles. There is now a considerable amount of data on hand, and many articles, including excellent review articles, have been written for the specialists. However, for students, new researchers, and non-specialists, a need still exists for a book that integrates these observations in a coherent way. This book is an attempt to meet that need by using the theory of classical electrodynamics to unify space observations. The contents of this book are based on classroom notes developed for an introductory space physics course that the author has taught for many years at the University of Washington. Students taking the course normally have had an undergraduate course in electricity and magnetism but they come with very little knowledge about space.