Michael Stix Bücher

The updated textbook incorporates significant advancements in solar physics since its 1989 edition, featuring nine revised chapters with an additional 100 pages and numerous new illustrations. Key topics include element diffusion in the solar interior, recent neutrino experiments, and innovative observational techniques for spectroscopy and polarimetry. It also highlights breakthroughs in helioseismology and numerical simulations, leveraging findings from recent space missions to enhance understanding of the Sun, from its core to the corona and solar wind.

A wealth of new experimental and theoretical results has been obtained in solar physics since the first edition of this textbook appeared in 1989. Thus all nine chapters have been thoroughly revised, and about 100 pages and many new illustrations have been added to the text. The additions include element diffusion in the solar interior, the recent neutrino experiments, methods of image restoration, observational devices used for spectroscopy and polarimetry, and new developments in helioseismology and numerical simulation. The book takes particular advantage of the results of several recent space missions, which lead to substantial progress in our understanding of the Sun, from the deep interior to the corona and solar wind.