Extreme Solar Particle Storms: The hostile Sun (Aas-Iop Astronomy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750322330 ISBN 13: 9780750322331

Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

It is becoming increasingly clear that our modern technological society is vulnerable to the impacts of severe solar storms, as well as radiation, particle and geomagnetic disturbances. However, the potential severity of these extreme solar events and their probability of occurring are unknown. What can we expect from the Sun? What could the most severe solar particle storms look like? Does the Sun have an unlimited ability to produce severe storms? Can a destructive "black swan" event occur? Direct solar data covers only several decades, a period too short to answer these questions. Fortunately, other indirect ways to study these, possibly rare, extreme solar storms have been discovered, paving the way for analysis of these events on the multi-millennial timescale. At present, studies of extreme solar events are growing, forming a new research discipline. This book, written by leaders in the corresponding aspects of the field, presents a first systematic review of the current state of the art.

Edition details

• Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750322330
• ISBN 13: 9780750322331
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Miyake Professor Fusa, Usoskin Professor Ilya, Poluianov Dr Stepan