@Book{GonzalezAlarconPark:2016:CoAp,
editor = "Gonzalez Alarcon, Walter Dem{\'e}trio and Parker, Eugene",
title = "Magnetic reconnection: concepts and applications",
publisher = "Springer",
year = "2016",
series = "Astrophysics and Space Science Library",
keywords = "Magnetic reconnection.",
abstract = "Motivated by the presentations and discussions carried out at the
Magnetic Reconnection Workshop, held at the National Institute for
Space Research (INPE) of Brazil in March 2014, some of the
scientists who attended it thought that it was timely to prepare a
new book on magnetic reconnection since previous books on this
topic have been published already 8 years before or more. Thus,
this book deals with a review of fundamental concepts on magnetic
reconnection that are still open for research and with
applications of this important cosmic plasma process to regions
going from the Suns atmosphere and the Earths magnetosphere to
domains involving heliospheric magnetospheres, stellar
atmospheres, turbulent astrophysical plasmas, radiation dominated
astrophysical systems, and even quantum systems in which
annihilation of quantum magnetic fluxes seems to take place. This
book updates and extends the scope of previous books on magnetic
reconnection, especially of those edited by Priest and Forbes
(2000) and by Birn and Priest (2007), which the readers are
referred to for reviews on fundamental aspects of MHD reconnection
and of collisionless reconnection. Most of the chapters of this
book have been prepared having graduate students and postdocs as
the main readers in mind, thus providing illustrations and
introductory discussions for the addressed topics. However, we
believe that all researchers in the field of magnetic reconnection
will also profit from the reviews presented in this book since
several of the authors have made an effort to incorporate new
research material in their reviews. Concerning the units used in
this book, because the chapters were written by different authors
with some of them preferring the MKS system and some the CGS
system, we have not made the effort to present all chapters with
only one of these units, also because we assume that the readers
are already familiar to find this same situation when reading
papers in which the authors prefer to use one system or the
other.",
affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {University
of Chicago}",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-26432-5",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26432-5",
isbn = "978-3-319-26430-1 and {978-3-319-26432-5 (eBook)}",
pages = "573",
targetfile = "BOOK proof.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "27 abr. 2024"
}