This is a completely new up-to-date rewrite from scratch of the 1982 book Solar MHD, taking account of the enormous advances in understanding since that date. Developed for a graduate course at St. Andrews, this advanced textbook provides a detailed account of the field.
• Includes end of chapter problems, which can be downloaded from the web site by clicking on “resources”
• Gives a comprehensive review of modern solar observations
• Covers the whole range of solar MHD theory
• Address key unsolved puzzles in modern solar physics
• Can be bought in hard-back version [£53.02 on amazon.co.uk ($81 on amazon.com)] or kindle edition [£37.11 on amazon.co.uk ($61.51 on amazon.com)]
After a comprehensive review of modern solar observations, the main aspects of solar MHD theory are treated, including equilibria, waves in a non-uniform medium, shock waves, magnetic reconnection and instabilities. Then the theory is applied to the following:
• generation of solar magnetic field by dynamo action
• magnetoconvection and photospheric flux tubes
• heating of the atmosphere by waves or reconnection
• the structure of prominences
• eruptive instability and reconnection in flares and coronal mass ejections
• and the acceleration of the slow and fast solar wind by reconnection or wave-turbulence.