Solar History An Introduction /

• Main Author: Vita-Finzi, Claudio. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Astronomy,
• Subjects: Physics.; Meteorology.; Planetology.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Meteorology/Climatology.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4295-6

Beyond the four centuries of sunspot observation and the five decades during which artificial satellites have monitored the Sun  that is to say for 99.99999% of the Suns existence  our knowledge of solar history depends largely on analogy with kindred main sequence stars, on the outcome of variou...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1.�Introduction
• 2.�Origins.-�3.�The young Sun.-�4. Isotopes and ice cores
• 5.�Cosmogenic radiocarbon
• 6.�The solar cycle.-�7.�Solar �rotation
• 8.�Contemporary history
• 9. The Lessons of History
• Index.