The Environments of the Sun and the Stars (Lecture Notes in Physics Book 857)

Annotation. Based on lectures given at a CNRS summer school in France, this book covers many aspects of stellar environments (both observational and theoretical) and offers a broad overview of the field. More specifically, Part I of the book focuses on the Sun, the properties of the ejected plasma, of the solar wind and on space weather. The second part deals with tides in planetary systems and in binary stellar systems, as well as with interactions in massive binary stars as seen by interferometry. Finally the chapters of Part III discuss the environments of young or evolved stars, stellar winds, agnetic fields and disks. With its broad approach the book will provide advanced students as well as researchers with a good overview of the environments of the Sun and the stars Front Matter....Pages I-XI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Discontinuities and Turbulence in the Solar Wind....Pages 3-13 Nature and Variability of Plasmas Ejected by the Sun....Pages 15-51 Space Weather and Space Climate—What the Look from the Earth Tells Us About the Sun....Pages 53-107 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Tides in Planetary Systems and in Multiple Stars: a Physical Picture....Pages 111-147 Interactions in Massive Binary Stars as Seen by Interferometry....Pages 149-159 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 Very Close Environments of Young Stars....Pages 163-181 An Introduction to Accretion Disks....Pages 183-205 Stellar Winds, Magnetic Fields and Disks....Pages 207-230 Magnetic Field and Convection in the Cool Supergiant Betelgeuse....Pages 231-238 The Formation of Circumstellar Disks Around Evolved Stars....Pages 239-250 Back Matter....Pages 251-253