Collisionless Plasmas in Astrophysics

Collisionless Plasmas examines the unique properties of media without ion-collisions in plasma physics. Filling a void in scientific literature, Collisionless Plasmas addresses common misconceptions that even professionals often possess and explains the phenomenon of "collisionless damping," or "La [...]
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Collisionless Plasmas examines the unique properties of media without ion-collisions in plasma physics. Filling a void in scientific literature, Collisionless Plasmas addresses common misconceptions that even professionals often possess and explains the phenomenon of "collisionless damping," or "Landau damping." The book tends to the theory's functions in both space physics and astrophysics. Experts in collisionless media, the authors present the first book to concentrate solely on collisionless conditions in plasmas close to thermal equilibrium.