1st Edition

The New Solar Physics

By John Allen Eddy Copyright 1979
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Our concepts of the sun have been altered by four new developments--the discovery of apparent global solar oscillations, an unsettled and unsettling deficit of neutrinos from the center of the sun, a new elucidation of the role of solar wind, and some disturbing historical facts that shake old concepts of solar constancy and regularity. This volume brings together summaries of these four... Read more
1 Solar Physics in Broad Perspective, 2 Historical and Arboreal Evidence for a Changing Sun, 3 Neutrinos from the Sun, 4 Streams, Sectors, and Solar Magnetism, 5 Seismic Sounding of the Sun

Biography

John A. Eddy is a senior scientist at the High Altitude Observatory~ National Centre for Atmospheric Research~ specializing in solar physics~ archaeoastronomy~ and the history of astronomy.