Plasma and the Universe: Dedicated to Professor Hannes Alfvén on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, 30 May 1988

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Hannes Alfvén on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, 30 May 1988....Pages 1-2
Observations Of Propagating Double Layers in a High Current Discharge....Pages 3-13
Critical Ionization Velocity Interaction: Some Unsolved Problems....Pages 15-30
Velocity Limitation of a Neutral Dust Cloud Colliding with a Magnetized Plasma....Pages 31-42
Dynamical Aspects of Electrostatic Double Layers....Pages 43-71
Cosmic Electric Currents and the Generalized Bennett Relation....Pages 73-84
Elementary Ideas Behind Plasma Physics....Pages 85-97
The Dielectric Analogue of Magnetohydrodynamics....Pages 99-104
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interactions — Near-Earth Manifestations of the Plasma Universe....Pages 105-133
Acceleration of Auroral Particles by Magnetic-Field Aligned Electric Fields....Pages 135-147
Parallel Electric Fields Accelerating Ions and Electrons in the Same Direction....Pages 149-154
Birkeland Currents in the Earth’s Magnetosphere....Pages 155-169
Auroral and Magnetic Variations in the Polar Cusp and Cleft — Signatures of Magnetopause Boundary-Layer Dynamics....Pages 171-199
Plasma Acceleration, Injection, and Loss: Observational Aspects....Pages 201-213
Charged Dust in the Earth’s Magnetosphere....Pages 215-229
Generalized Adiabatic Theory Applied to the Magnetotail Current Sheet....Pages 231-256
Particle Dynamics and Currents in the Magnetotail....Pages 257-277
Hydromagnetic Waves Associated with Possible Flux Transfer Events....Pages 279-290
Free Convection and Mass Transfer Effects on the Magnetohydrodynamic Flows Near A Moving Plate in A Rotating Medium....Pages 291-301
An Electric-Current Description of Solar Flares....Pages 303-309
Solar Flares Through Electric Current Interaction....Pages 311-319
Global Wave Patterns in the Sun’s Magnetic Field....Pages 321-336
Temporal Variations of Low-Energy Cosmic-Ray Protons on Decadal and Million Year Time-Scales: Implications to Their Origin....Pages 337-346
Electrodynamics of the EUV/X-Ray Bright Point and Filamentary Flux Loop Complexes....Pages 347-352
Peculiar Solar Flares and Plages of Possible Interest for the Study of Electric Quadrupole Lines of NaI and MgII....Pages 353-356
Band Structure of the Solar System: An Objective Test of the Grouping of Planets and Satellites....Pages 357-372
The Cosmogonic Shadow Effect....Pages 373-406
The Role of Magnetohydrodynamics in Heliospheric Space Plasma Physics Research....Pages 407-425
Alfvén Waves in a Space Plasma and its Role in the Solar Wind Interaction with Comets....Pages 427-438
Modeling a Cometary Nucleus....Pages 439-449
Filamentation of Volcanic Plumes on the Jovian Satellite IO....Pages 451-461
 In Situ Acceleration and Gradients of Charged Particles in the Outer Solar System Observed by the Voyager Spacecraft....Pages 463-486
Interaction of Interstellar Pick-Up Ions with the Solar Wind....Pages 487-505
The Even-Odd Systematics in R -Process Nuclide Abundances....Pages 507-517
The Solubility Problem of Heavy Elements in Internal Stellar Plasma Revisited....Pages 519-533
Electron Heating in Superhigh Mach Number Shocks....Pages 535-547
‘Dead’ Pulsars: Cosmic-Ray Sources....Pages 549-556
The Effects of Mutual Irradiation on the Observed Radial Velocity of the Components of Close Binary Systems....Pages 557-586
Magnetic Confinement of Cosmic Clouds....Pages 587-614
Mass Pick-Up in Astronomical Flows....Pages 615-627
Infrared Emission From Interstellar Plasma....Pages 629-633
On the Fluctuations of the Surface Brightness of Galaxies....Pages 635-638
On the Dynamics of the Metagalaxy....Pages 639-658
Tearing Down Disciplinary Barriers....Pages 659-667