INFORMATION
Required Texts:
Fundamentals of
Space Physics, (14 Mb) by Hughes, 2016
Introduction
to Plasma Physics by Chen, 1984
Optional Texts:
Introduction to Space Physics, by Kivelson and
Russell, Cambridge Univ Press, 1995
Physics of Space Plasmas, by Parks
Physics of Solar System Plasmas, by Cravens
See the syllabus for more
detailed information.
Handouts
Reynolds "Fluids: A brief
introduction" (version 2)
Crimaldi
"A Primer on Index
Notation" (see also Harlen)
Hathaway "The
Solar Cycle"
Owens & Forsiyth "The
Heliospheric Magnetic Field"
Fried "Introduction
to plasma physics" (see also "Intro to Plasmas"
by Hutchinson)
Naval Research Laboratory "Plasma Formulary"
Magnetic Reynolds number and
magnetic reconnection
Reynolds "Dimensional
Analysis" (derivation of, e.g., the magnetic Reynolds
number)
Schindler & Hornig "Magnetic
Reconnection" Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
MHD waves; cyclotron waves
Fried One Fluid MHD
Overview of Space Physics
MetEd at UCAR
(you will need to sign up - it's free)
PROJECTS
NOTE: All submissions below are due via
email (reynodb2 at erau.edu) by 23:59 UT on the given
date. After this time, the score will be reduced by 1 point, with
an additional 1 point reduction every 12 hours.
Essay
Thu 19 Jan 2017 - draft: brief overview + 2 paragraphs, LaTeX not
required (10)
Thu 26 Jan 2017 - final report due (20)
Report template (LaTeX source)
Habbal & Woo "The
solar wind and the Sun-Earth link"
Project 1 - Sunspot cycle analysis
Tue 24 Jan 2017 - run code, submit plot in "pgn" format
(5)
Tue 31 Jan 2017 - 3 figures smoothing + text (10)
Tue 7 Feb 2017 - Fourier transform figure + text (15)
Tue 14 Feb 2017 - final report (30)
Background reading:
Galileo's
sunspot drawings
Snodgrass & Ulrich 1990 "Rotation
of Doppler features in the solar photosphere"
Solar
cycle progression from NOAA Space Weather Prediction
Center
Relevant files and websites:
Report
instructions (LaTeX
source) (final version)
Historical
sunspot numbers from SIDC
Discrete
Fourier transform from Numerical Recipes
Smoothing techniques
from Numerical Recipes
sunspots.m - basic Matlab
source to read and plot running average (final version)
Examples of how to write figure captions here
Project 2 - Charged particle dynamics
Thu 23 Feb 2017 - Step 1 - run code, write up short section on
cyclotron motion (5)
Thu 2 Mar 2017 - Step 2 - modify code, write up short section on
grad B drift (10)
Thu 9 Mar 2017 - Step 3 - modify code, write up short section on
magnetic mirror motion (15)
Thu 23 Mar 2017 - Step 4 - modify code, write up short section on
motion in a dipole field (30)
Thu 30 Mar 2017 - turn in final report (60)
total points - 120
Relevant files
Report
instructions (LaTeX
source)
ParticlePush.m
Journal
article presentation
Tue 4 Apr 2017 - select article from 2015 GRL (5)
Tue 11 Apr 2017 - one paragraph summarizing main results (10) -
This serves as an "abstract submission" and 23:59 UT is a hard
deadline for admission to the conference
13-18 Apr 2017 - practice talk (15)
20-27 Apr
2017 - presentations (30)
Problems
LINKS
Best movies
from Soho
Space physics books
in the ERAU library:
The Solar-Terrestrial Environment /
Hargreaves - QC 879
.H278 1992
Space
Physics / Kallenrode - QC 718 .K28 2001
Physics of the Space Environment / Gombosi - QC 861.2 .G64 2004
Physics of Space Plasmas / Parks - QC 879 H278 1992
The Solar-Terrestrial Environment / Hargreaves - QC 879 H278 1992
Other relevant books in the
ERAU library:
Introduction to Electrodyamics /
Griffiths - QC680 .G74 1999
Online tutorials
The
exploration of the Earth's magnetosphere
The Earth's Dynamo
Walter
Elsasser (obituary)
PAPERS
Akasofu, 2011 "A historical review of the
geomagnetic storm-producing plasma flows from the Sun" pdf
Daglis et al.,1999 "The terrestrial ring current: Origin,
formation, and decay" pdf
Howard, 1975 "The rotation of the sun" pdf
Owens and Forsyth, 2013 "The heliospheric magnetic field" online
Helge Kragh 2009 "The green line: a chapter in the history of
auroral physics" pdf
Stump & Pollack 1998 "A current sheet model for the Earth's
magnetic field" pdf
Akasofu1990 "Is the Earth's dipole field actually inclined with
respect to the rotation axis?" pdf