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Radiation in astrophysical plasmas
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ISBN: 079233907X 9401065748 9400902018 Year: 1996 Volume: 204 Publisher: Dordrecht : Kluwer academic,

Dusty and self-gravitational plasmas in space
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ISBN: 0792330226 0792336755 9048144450 9401585571 Year: 1995 Volume: 193 Publisher: Boston Kluwer Academic Publishers

Plasmas and fluids
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ISBN: 0309035481 9786610222360 1280222360 0309542200 0585085072 9780585085074 9780309035484 Year: 1986 Volume: 7 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press

Unstable current systems and plasma instabilities in astrophysics : proceedings of the 107th symposium of the international Astronomical Union, held in CollegePark, Maryland, August 8-11, 1983
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ISBN: 9027718865 9027718873 9400965206 Year: 1985 Volume: vol 107 Publisher: Dordrecht Boston Tokyo Reidel

Astrophysical plasmas and fluids
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ISBN: 0792353129 0792354907 9401147205 Year: 1999 Volume: 235 Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston ; London Kluwer academic publishers

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Abstract

Life was simple when the dynamic, the spectral and the resolving powers of our instruments were small. One observed whole objects - planets, stars, sunspots, galaxies, often in rainbow colours. Then the revolution occurred: we acquired the centimetric eyes, the mil­ limetric eyes, the infrared eyes, the ultraviolet eyes, the X-ray eyes and the ,-ray eyes. With these we see mottles on the surface of stars, streams in sunspots, and spirals in nuclei of galaxies. We see regions of multiple mass densities and temperatures in a precari­ ous balance, losing it occasionally, exhaling flares. The universe is timed, cosmic phenomena are clocked; eternity is lost and variabil­ ity is bought. Microarcsecond resolutions revealed stirring and siz­ zling interiors underneath serene surfaces. Short durations and small scales demanded employing a discipline with similar attributes - the discipline of Plasmas and Fluids - known more for its complexity than for its felicity. Some would like to wish it away. We shall learn about plasmas for it is too little familiarity that breeds fear. Complexity can be systemized, to a large extent, by looking for a common denominator among apparently disparate phe­ nomena. It is not immediately obvious what the contents and the style of a graduate level course on plasmas and fluids aimed at understanding astrophysical phenomena should be. Plasmas and fluids are huge subjects by themselves. The cosmic phenomena where plasmas and fluids playa definite role are equally diverse and numerous.

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