The 3-D Heliosphere at Solar Maximum: Proceedings of the 34th ESLAB Symposium, 3-6 October 2000, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands / Edition 1

by R.G. Marsden

Overview

Our knowledge of the heliosphere in three dimensions near solar minimum has advanced significantly in the last 10 years, largely as a result of the on-going ESAINASA Ulysses mission. Similar advances in our understanding of the global heliosphere near solar maximum are to be expected with the return of Ulysses to high solar latitudes in 2000/200 I. With this in mind, the 34th ESLAB Symposium, held at ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, on 3-6 October, 2000, was devoted to 'The 3-D Heliosphere at Solar Maximum'. This was the third ESLAB Sympo­ sium focusing on the three-dimensional heliosphere (previous symposia being in 1985 and 1994), and the timing was particularly appropriate, marking as it did the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Ulysses spacecraft. Furthermore, Ulysses had just started its third high-latitude pass, the second over the Sun's south polar regions. The symposium addressed a wide range of topics related to the solar-maximum heliosphere, with presentations on many of the latest findings from Ulysses and other space-based missions. Ground-based studies and theoretical modeling were also well represented. Specific questions to which answers were sought included the following.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792370475
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/31/2001
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	431
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Section 1: The Sun and Corona Near Solar Maximum.- Section 2: The Large-Scale Structure of the Heliophere Near Solar Maximum.- Section 3: Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere.- Section 4: Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere.- Section 5: The Heliosphere in the Local Interstellar Medium.- Author Index.- List of Participants.