Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Preface ix

1. The Solar Wind
Alexis P. Rouillard, Nicholeen Viall, Viviane Pierrard, Christian Vocks, Lorenzo Matteini, Olga Alexandrova, Aleida K. Higginson, Benoit Lavraud, Michael Lavarra, Yihong Wu, Rui Pinto, Alessandro Bemporad, and Eduardo Sanchez-Diaz 1

2. The Heating of the Solar Corona
Nicholeen M. Viall, Ineke De Moortel, Cooper Downs, James A. Klimchuk, Susanna Parenti, and Fabio Reale 35

3. Solar Magnetism and Radiation
Gordon Petrie, Serena Criscuoli, and Luca Bertello 83

4. Solar Energetic Particles
Christina M.S. Cohen, Gang Li, Glenn M. Mason, Albert Y. Shih, and Linghua Wang 133

5. Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections
Barbara J. Thompson, Jiong Qiu, Noe Lugaz, and David F. Webb 179

6. Fine-Scale Features of the Sun’s Atmosphere: Spicules and Jets
Alphonse C. Sterling 221

7. Solar Interior
Mark Linton, Mausumi Dikpati, and Rachel Howe 251

Index 301

About the Author

Nour E. Raouafi, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA

Angelos Vourlidas, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA