Dusty and Self-Gravitational Plasmas in Space / Edition 1

by P. Bliokh, V. Sinitsin, V. Yaroshenko

Overview

The diverse and often surprising new facts about planetary rings and comet environments that were reported by the interplanetary missions oflate 1970s - 1980s stimulated investigations of the so-called dusty plasma. The number of scientific papers on the subject that have been published since is quite impressive. Recently, a few surveys and special journal issues have appeared. Time has come to integrate some of the knowledge in a book. Apparently, this is the first monograph on dusty and self-gravitational plasmas. While the circle of pertinent problems is rather clearly defined, not all of them are equally represented here. The authors have concentrated on cooperative phenomena (Le. waves and instabilities) in the dusty plasma and the effects of self-gravitation. At the same time, in an attempt to present the vast material consistently, we have included such topics as electrostatics of the dusty plasma and gravitoelectrodynamics of individual charged particles. Also mentioned are astrophysical implications, mostly concerning planetary rings. We hope that the book shall be of interest and value both to specialists and those (astro )physicists who have just discovered this area of plasma physics. We are thankful to many scientists actively working in the field of dusty plasma physics who have generously let us become acquainted with their results, sometimes prior to publication of their own papers: U. de Angelis, N. D'Angelo, o. Havnes, A. Mendis, M. Rosenberg, P. Shukla, F. Verheest, and E. Wollman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792330226
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	09/30/1995
Series:	Astrophysics and Space Science Library , #193
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 Electrostatics of Dusty Plasmas.- 2 Gravitoelectrodynamics.- 3 Cooperative Effects in Self-Gravitational and Dusty Plasmas.- 4 Unstable Disturbances in Flows of Dusty and Self-Gravitational Plasmas.- 5 Dusty and Self-Gravitational Plasmas of Planetary Rings.

Editorial Reviews

Synthesizes information from the scientific papers, surveys, and special issues of journals that have dealt with dusty plasmas since they were found in planetary rings and comet environments by interplanetary missions of the late 1970s and 1980s. The five papers focus on cooperative phenomena such as waves and instabilities and the effects of self-gravitation, but also consider such topics as electrostatics of the plasma as a whole, gravito-electro-dynamics of individual charged particles, and the astrophysical implications especially in regard to planetary rings. Of interest to physicists and astrophysicists researching plasma. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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