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Extreme Solar Particle Storms

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Extreme Solar Particle Storms: The hostile Sun provides a consolidated review of our current understanding of extreme solar events, or black swans, that leave our technological society vulnerable. ...
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It is becoming increasingly clear that our modern technological society is vulnerable to the impacts of severe solar storms, as well as radiation, particle and geomagnetic disturbances. However, the potential severity of these extreme solar events and their probability of occurring are unknown. What can we expect from the Sun? What could the most severe solar particle storms look like? Does the Sun have an unlimited ability to produce severe storms? Can a destructive "black swan" event occur? Direct solar data covers only several decades, a period too short to answer these questions. Fortunately, other indirect ways to study these, possibly rare, extreme solar storms have been discovered, paving the way for analysis of these events on the multi-millennial timescale. At present, studies of extreme solar events are growing, forming a new research discipline. This book, written by leaders in the corresponding aspects of the field, presents a first systematic review of the current state of the art.
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Price: £120.00
Pages: 276
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
Imprint: Institute of Physics Publishing
Publication Date: 03 December 2019
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9780750322300
Format: Hardcover
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SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, Solar system: the Sun and planets
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D.S. is grateful to David Moss (Manchester University) for a critical
reading of his section and acknowledges financial support of RFBR under grant
18-02-00085 and BASIS Foundation under grant 18-1-1-77-1. The work of E.R. and
T.S. in Chapter 4 was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under
grant 200020_182239 (POLE). The work of E.R. and T.S. in Chapter 8 was
supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant 17-17-01060). S.P. and I.U.
are thankful to the Academy of Finland for support in the framework of the
ReSoLVE Centre of Excellence (Project 307411) and ESPERA Project (321882).
K.K. thanks Grants-in-Aid from the MEXT/JSPS, JP15H05814. H.H. thanks
Grants-in-Aid from the JSPS, JP17J06954, JP15H05816, JP15H05812 and
JP1801254, as well as the ISEE of the Nagoya University for their financial
supports

1 - Introduction 2 - What can be learned from the modern data? 3 - State-of-the-art theory and modelling 4 - Cosmogenic isotopes as proxy for solar energetic particles 5 - Measurements of radionuclides 6 - Characterization of the measured events 7 - Further search for extreme events 8 - Possible impacts 9 - Concluding remarks 10 - Abbreviation list