New Millennium Solar Physics, 1st ed. 2019
Astrophysics and Space Science Library Series, Vol. 458

This is a follow-on book to the introductory textbook "Physics of the Solar Corona" previously published in 2004 by the same author, which provided a systematic introduction and covered mostly scientific results from the pre-2000 era. Using a similar structure as the previous book the second volume provides a seamless continuation of numerous novel research results in solar physics that emerged in the new millennium (after 2000) from the new solar missions of RHESSI, STEREO, Hinode, CORONAS, and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) during the era of 2000-2018. The new solar space missions are characterized by unprecedented high-resolution imaging, time resolution, spectral capabilities, stereoscopy and tomography, which reveal the intricate dynamics of magneto-hydrodynamic processes in the solar corona down to scales of 100 km. The enormous amount of data streaming down from SDO in Terabytes per day requires advanced automated data processing methods. The book focuses exclusively on new research results after 2000, which are reviewed in a comprehensive manner, documented by over 3600 literature references, covering theory, observations, and numerical modeling of basic physical processes that are observed in high-temperature plasmas of the Sun and other astrophysical objects, such as plasma instabilities, coronal heating, magnetic reconnection processes, coronal mass ejections, plasma waves and oscillations, or particle acceleration.

Markus J. Aschwanden is an astrophysicist at Lockheed-Martin, Advanced Technology Center, Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, and has been a science team member and co-investigator of several leading international solar missions. He has received NASA awards over 30 years and is author of several books, including "Physics of the Solar Corona" and "Self-Organized Criticality in Astrophysics" co-published by Springer and Praxis.

Presents an update of solar research in the new millennium during 2000-2018, complementing the previous successful solar corona textbook in theory and observations

Describes new research results in solar physics in a systematic way, organized by 16 chapters of solar phenomena from the solar interior out to the heliosphere, each one subdivided into 10 topics of recent research interest

Provides over 3600 literature references, systematically sorted by phenomena and research topics, including the number of citations and citation rate per year for each reference