Proceedings of the Third UN/ESA/NASA Workshop on the International Heliophysical Year 2007 and Basic Space Science : National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

This book represents Volume II of the Proceedings of the UN/ESA/NASA Workshop on the International Heliophysical Year 2007 and Basic Space Science, hosted by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, 18 - 22 June, 2007. It covers two programme topics explored in this and past workshops of this nature: (i) non-extensive statistical mechanics as applicable to astrophysics, addressing q-distribution, fractional reaction and diffusion, and the reaction coefficient, as well as the Mittag-Leffler function and (ii) the TRIPOD concept, developed for astronomical telescope facilities. The companion publication, Volume I of the proceedings of this workshop, is a special issue in the journal Earth, Moon, and Planets, Volume 104, Numbers 1-4, April 2009. Front Matter....Pages i-viii T. Dauxois’ “Non-Gaussian Distributions Under Scrutiny” Under Scrutiny....Pages 1-9 Some Remarks on the Paper “On the q -type Distributions”....Pages 11-15 Canonical Formulation of Fractional Kinetics....Pages 17-23 Out-of-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics in a Hamiltonian System with Mean-Field Interaction....Pages 25-33 An Alternative Method for Solving a Certain Class of Fractional Kinetic Equations....Pages 35-40 Extended Reaction Rate Integral as Solutions of Some General Differential Equations....Pages 41-51 Solutions of the Fractional Reaction Equation and the Fractional Diffusion Equation....Pages 53-62 Astrophysical Applications of Fractional Calculus....Pages 63-78 Generalized Mittag-Leffler Distributions and Processes for Applications in Astrophysics and Time Series Modeling....Pages 79-92 Solar Wind Speed Theory and the Nonextensivity of Solar Corona....Pages 93-102 Dynamism in the Solar Core....Pages 103-139 How the Literature is Used A View Through Citation and Usage Statistics of the ADS....Pages 141-147 Photometric and Spectroscopic Studies of BW Eri....Pages 149-157 Near Infrared Excess Energy in Binary System V367 Cygni....Pages 159-164 Period Study and Secondary Maximum of KZ Hya....Pages 165-174 Current and Future Capabilities of the 74-inch Telescope of Kottamia Astronomical Observatory in Egypt....Pages 175-187 Back Matter....Pages 1-1