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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2024
Print publication year:
2024
Online ISBN:
9781009562942
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009562942
Subjects:
Solar and Space Plasma Physics, Physics and Astronomy, Astrophysics
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Book description

Research applications of complex systems and nonlinear physics are rapidly expanding across various scientific disciplines. A common theme among them is the concept of “self-organized criticality systems”, which this volume presents in detail for observed astrophysical phenomena, such as solar flares, coronal mass ejections, solar energetic particles, solar wind, stellar flares, magnetospheric events, planetary systems, galactic and black-hole systems. The author explores fundamental questions: Why do power laws, the hallmarks of self-organized criticality, exist? What power law index is predicted for each astrophysical phenomenon? Which size distributions have universality? What can waiting time distributions tell us about random processes? This is the first monograph that tests comprehensively astrophysical observations of self-organized criticality systems for students, post-docs, and researchers. A highlight is a paradigm shift from microscopic concepts, such as the traditional cellular automaton algorithms, to macroscopic concepts formulated in terms of physical scaling laws.

Reviews

‘This book is a very detailed discussion of the concepts of power laws in astrophysics with comparison to observations both from space and ground-based. In the realm of solar physics, which is the main expertise of the author, power laws in size distributions are extremely common and are particularly well illustrated in this book.’

Ken Phillips Source: The Observatory

‘… a valuable survey of SOC astrophysics and will be a valuable addition to libraries serving a university astrophysics department. Recommended.’

A. Spero Source: CHOICE

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