www.williams.edu/Astronomy/Course-Pages/412/
Texts:
Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff, Nearest Star: The Exciting Science of Our Sun (Harvard University Press, 2001); http://www. williams.edu/astronomy/neareststar
Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff, The Solar Corona, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
http://www.williams.edu/astronomy/corona
Jay M. Pasachoff, The Sun (Complete Idiot's Guides series, Alpha Books, 2003); www.williams.edu/astronomy/sun [to be distributed in class]
Additional readings: (* indicates that it is on the Schow reserve shelf)
*Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun, by Kenneth Lang (Cambridge U. Press, 2001), QB521 .L24 2001 [LE]
*Sun, Earth, and Sky, by Kenneth Lang (Springer-Verlag, 1995). [L]
*The Sun from Space, by Kenneth Lang (Springer, 2000)QB521 .L25 2000
*Solar Interior and Atmosphereed. by A. Cox, W. Livingston, and M. S. Matthews (U. Arizona Press, 1991) [CLW on reading list] QB539 I5 S65
*Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe, 6th ed. (Brooks/Cole, 2002) [ETU6 on reading list]
The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium, by Jay M. Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko, 3nd ed. (Brooks/Cole, 2007) [Cosmos on reading list]
*The Sun, Our Star by R. W. Noyes (Harvard University Press, 1982) QB521.N68
*Total Eclipses of the Sun by Jack B. Zirker (Princeton University Press, 1995) QB121.C69
*Journey to the Center of the Sun by Jack B. Zirker (Princeton University Press, 2002) QB521 .Z58
*Sunquakes: Probing the Interior of the Sun by Jack B. Zirker (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) QB539.I5 Z57 2003
*Solar Astrophysics by Peter V. Foukal (Wiley, 1994) [F] QB521 F68 2004
*Guide to the Sun by Kenneth J. H. Phillips (Cambridge, 1992, 1995) [P] QB521 .P45
*The Enigma of Sunspots: A story of discovery and scientific revolution, by Judit Brody (Floris Books, 2002) QB525.B76 2002
Physics of the Solar Corona: An Introduction, by Markus Ashwanden (Springer, 2004)
Fundamentals of Solar Astronomy, by Arvind Bhatnagar and Williams Livingston (World Scientific, 2005)
*Lectures on solar physics, by H.M. Antia, A. Bhatnagar, P. Ulmschneider, eds. (Springer, 2003) QB520.L43 2003
Web site: http://web.williams.edu/Astronomy/Course-Pages/412/index.html and glow.williams.edu
Also, through http://www.williams.edu/astronomy/jay = http://solarcorona.net, go to Updates by Chapter button and then to Chapter 10 for updates and links to GONG, SOHO, Big Bear Solar Observatory, National Solar Observatories, Space Environment Lab., Marshall Space Flight Center (sunspot cycle), etc.
http://www.williams.edu/astronomy/eclipse
http://www.williams.edu/IAU_eclipses (Working Group on Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union), see also related site at http://www.eclipses.info
Web links
http://www.williams.edu/astronomy/jay/solarlinks
[being updated: any volunteers?]
Transits of Venus and Mercury
See http://www.transitofvenus.info.
Office Hours: Monday and Tuesday from 11:15 to 12:15, or by appointment
TPL 115, 597 2105, jay.m.pasachoff@williams.eduMovies/Videos
times to be arranged
Solar Observing
times to be arranged
Golub/Pasachoff chapters, Nearest Star [GP_nearest]
1. The Sun
2. The Once and Future Sun
3. What We See: The Solar Disk
4. What We Don't See
5. Eclipses
6. Space Missions
7. Between Fire and Ice
8. Space Weather
Golub/Pasachoff chapters, The Solar Corona [GP_corona]
1. Introduction
2. Brief history of coronal studies
3. The coronal spectrum
4. The solar cycle
5. Ground-based observations
6. Observations from space: I. The first 30 years
7. Activity of the inner corona
8. Observations from space: II. Recent missions
9. Solar flares & the corona
10. Solar-terrestrial physics
Pasachoff chapters, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun [CIG_sun]
Part 1: What the Sun Looks Like
1 The Sun Shines On Us
2 The Active Sun
3 Seeing the Invisible
4 The Sun Goes Up; the Sun Goes Down
5 Our Sun: Looking Good
Part 2: The Sun Through Time
6 The Sun as a Star
7 The Sun and Civilization
8 The Birth of the Sun
9 The Sun at the Center
10 The Death of the Sun
Part 3: Eclipses of the Sun
11 Who Stole the Sun?
12 Saros and Cycles
13 Helium: Only on the Sun
14 To the Ends of the Earth
15 To Be in the Moon's Shadow
16 Venus Tries to Cover Immodestly
Part 4: The Sun from Mountaintops
17 High Above the Clouds
18 Sunspot, New Mexico, and the House of the Sun
19 Canaries and the Big Dog
20 Ringing Like a Bell
Part 5: The Sun from Space
21 Above the Air Is Better
22 Sunbeam
23 Yo Ho, SOHO
24 Tracing Out the Loops
25 Plunging into the Sun
Part 6: The Sun-Earth Connection
26 Constancy, Thy Name Isn't the Sun
27 Greenhouses of Salt
28 The Forecast Today Is Flares
Foukal chapters:
1. Development of the Ideas and Instruments of Modern Solar Research
2. Radiative Transfer in the Sun's Atmosphere
3. Solar Spectroscopy
4. Dynamics of Solar Plasmas
5. The Photosphere
6. The Sun's Internal Structure and Energy Generation
7. Rotation, Convection, and Oscillations in the Sun
8. Observations of Photospheric Activity and Magnetism
9. The Chromosphere and Corona
10. Prominences and Flares
11. Dynamics of the Solar Magnetic Field
12. The Solar Wind and Heliosphere
13. The Sun, Our Variable Star
Phillips Guide chapters:
1. The history of solar observation: from sun worship to the space age
2. The solar interior
3. The solar photosophere
4. The solar chromosphere
5. The solar corona
6. The active sun
7. The sun and the solar system
8. The sun and other stars
9. Solar energy
10. Observing the sun
Zirker Journey chapters:
1. Getting Started
2. The Secret Heart of the Sun
3. The Deep Interior
4. Order and Chaos: the Convection Zone
5. Looking Inside from the Outside
6. The Hot Atmosphere
7. The Magnetic Atmosphere
8. The Middle Kingdom: the Chromosphere and Transition Zone
9. Active Regions
10. Explosions on the Sun
11. The Corona and the Wind
12. "Like a Tea Tray in the Sky"
13. The Solar Cycle
14. The Sun and Climate
Lang Sun, Earth, Sky chapters:
1. Introduction
2. Energizing the Sun
3. Ghostlike neutrinos
4. Taking the pulse of the Sun
5. A magnetic star
6. An unseen world of perpetual change (corona and solar wind)
7. The violent sun
8. Energizing space
9. Transforming the Earth's life-sustaining atmosphere
10. Fire and ice
Lang Cambridge Encyclopedia chapters
1. The Sun's domain
2. The Sun as a star
3. What makes the Sun shine?
4. Inside the Sun
5. The magnetic solar atmosphere
6. The explosive Sun
7. The Sun's winds
8. The Sun-Earth connection
9. Observing the Sun