ADVANCED TOPICS ON ASTROPHYSICAL AND SPA,CE PLASMAS Proceedings of the Advanced School on Astrophysical and Space Plasmas held in Guaruja, Brazil, June 26-30, 1995 Edited by ELISABETE M. DE GOUVEIA DAL PINO University of sao Paulo, Instituto Astron/Jmico e Geofisico, Brazii ANTHONY L. PERATT Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States Department of Energy, Germantown, MD, U.S.A. GUSTAVO A. MEDINA TANCO University of sao Paulo, Instituto Astronomico e Geofisico, Brazii and ABRAHAM c.-l. CHIAN National Institute for Space Research, sao Iose dos Campos, Brazii Reprinted from Astrophysics and Space Science Volume 242, Nos. 1-2, 1996 SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface List ofparticipants Institutes M. BIRKINSHAW / Instabilities in Astrophysical Jets ANTHONY L. PERATT / Advances in Numerical Modeling of Astrophysical and Space Plasmas DIETER BISKAMP / Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas D.B. MELROSE / Particle Acceleration and Nonthermal Radiation in Space Plasmas A.C.-L. CHIAN / Nonlinear Wave-Wave Interactions in Astrophysical and Space Plasmas 1-2 7-8 9-11 17-91 93-163 165-207 209-246 249-295
Advanced Topics on Astrophysical and Space Plasmas PREFACE During the 1994 International Conference on Plasma Physics held in Foz do Igua<.;u, Brazil, a group ofscientists, motivated by the recent considerable growth of the Brazilian community interest in Plasma Astrophysics and Space Plasma Physics, decided to organize an Advanced School on Astrophysical and Space Plasmas. Seven months later, from June 26 to 30, 1995, the event took place in a nice seaside resort in Guaruja, an island off the coast of Brazil, between the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The aim of this School was to bring together researchers of related areas of Plasma Astrophysics and Space Plasma Physics, providing a forum for the discussion of subject matters, existing models and techniques of common interest. It was agreed that the best way to meet that objective was to focus on a few subjects of wide interest and to invite some renowned scientists to present the reviews. The main topics covered included Particle Acceleration, Nonthermal Radiation, MHD Instabilities, Magnetic Field Reconnection, and Nonlinear Dynamics in astrophysical and space plasmas. Lectures of four and half hours on each of those subjects were presented at the School and this book brings together most of those valuable reviews. Dieter Biskamp of the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics reviewed the Magnetic Field Reconnection and MHD Instabillities, Mark Birkinshaw of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University of Bristol reviewed the Instabilities in Cosmic Jets, Abraham Chian of the National Institute for Space Research reviewed the Nonlinear Wave-Wave Interactions in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas, Nelson Fiedler-Ferrara of the University of Sao Paulo reviewed the Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics in Plasmas, Donald Melrose of the University of Sydney reviewed the Particle Acceleration and Nonthermal Radiation, and Anthony Peratt of the Los Alamos National Laboratory reviewed the Numerical Methods on Astrophysical and Space Plasmas. About 60 researchers and graduate students from Brazil and Argentina attended the School. This event has been financially supported by the following Brazilian science foundations: FAPESP, CNPq, and CAPES, and also by the Instituto Astronomico e Geoffsico of the University of Sao Paulo () and DEDALUS of Brazil. Astrophysics and Space Science 242: 1-2, 1997. @1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
2 The organizing committee was composed by Abraham Chian (National Institute for Space Research), Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino (University of Sao Paulo) (chairperson), Gustavo A. Medina Tanco (University of Sao Paulo), and Irina Potapenko (State University of Rio de Janeiro). We are indebted to Ms. Marina de Freitas, Marcia Pina Albe, Maria do Carmo Correea and Mr. Julio Klafke for their excellent logistic support during the organization of the School. We are also indebted to the Brazilian Agency FAPESP for providing financial support for the publication of this volume. Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino Anthony L. Peratt Gustavo A. Medina Tanco Abraham C.-L. Chian
List of participants on the Conference Picture 01 Lopes, S.R. - 18 Birkinshaw, M. 35 Jafelice, L.C. 02 Costa, J.E.R. 19 Contin, J.E. 36 Grishanov, ~' 03 Cecatto, J.R. 20 Horvath, J.E. 37 Santiago, M.A.M. 04 Fiedler-Ferrara, N. 21 Abraham, Z. 38 Shigueoka, H. 05 Tretiakov, N. 22 Canullo, M.V. 39 Tavares, M. 06 do Prado, F. 23 Potapenko, I. 40 Pakter, R. 07 Vasquez, A.M. 24 Canalle, J.B.G. 41 de Oliveira, G.1. 08 Gomez, D. 25 Amarante Segundo, G.S. 42 Opher, R. 09 Abalde Guede, J.R. 26 Miranda, O.D. 43 Biskamp, D. 10 Teixeira da Cunha, P.1. 27 Oiwa, N.N. 44 Alves, M.V. lj Pachao Morbitzer, N. 28 Medina Tanco, G.A. 45 Xavier da Silva, J.C. 12 Melendez Moreno, J.L. 29 Gouveia Dal Pino, E.M. 46 Voelzke, M.R. 13 Pina Albe, M. 30 Hoth Cerqueira, A. 47 Botti, L.C.L. 14 Peratt, A. 31 Morais Pereira, J. 48 Elfimov, A. 15 Correia, E. 32 Ullmann, K. 49 Melrose, D. 16 Carlos Reyes, R.E. 33 Gon~alves, D. 50 Chian, A. 17 Opher, M. 34 Jatenco Pereira, V. 51 Ferreira, J.L.
List of participant~ Name Jose R. Abalde Guede Zulema Abraham Maria Virginia Alves Gesil S. Amarante Segundo Walter M. Andrade Mark Birkinshaw Dieter Biskamp Joao B. G. Canalle Maria Victoria Canullo Jose R. Cecatto Adriano H. Cerqueira Abraham C. L. Chian Julia E. Contin Emilia Correia Joaquim E. R. Costa Pedro 1. T. da Cunha Murilo da Silva Baptista Jose C. X. da Silva Vhian C. de Almeida Lopes Jose de Morais Pereira Glaucius 1.. de Oliveira Wilson de Oliveira Lavras Fabio do Prado Artour Elfimov Jose L. Ferreira Nelson Fiedler-Ferrara Erik Figueiredo Freire Daniel Gomez Denise R. Gonc;;alves Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino Tatiana Grishahova Nikolay Grishanov Jorge E. Horvath Luiz C. Jafelice Vera Jatenco-Pereira Konstantin G. Kostov Luiz C. Lima Botti Sergio R. Lopes Marcos A. Matos Santiago Gustavo A. Medina Tanco Jorge L. Melendez Moreno Donald Melrose Oswaldo D. Miranda Nestor N. Oiwa Merav Opher Reuven Opher Nelson Pachao Morbitzer Renato Pakter Anthony Peratt Irina Potapenko Institute INPE INPE IF-USP IF-UERJ CfA MPIPP IF-UERJ IAFE INPE INPE IFP CRAAE CRAAE ICEX-UFMG IF-USP IF-UERJ INPE IF-USP IF - UFRGS INPE IF-UERJ UnB IF-USP IAFE IF-UERJ IF-UERJ UFRN UnB CRAAE INPE IF-UFF INPE Sydney Univ. IF-USP Balseiro IF-UFRGS LANL/DOE IF-UERJ E-mail address abalde das.inpe.br zulema@vax.iagusp.usp.br al ves@plasma.inpe.br gesil@if.usp.br canalle@vrnesa.uerj.br mbl@cfa.harvard.edu dfb@ipp-garching.mpg.de canalle@vrnesa.uerj.br canullo@iafe.uba.ar jrc das.inpe.br adriano@vax.iagusp.usp.br achian@das.inpe.br julia@lfpba.edu.ar ecorreia@fox.cce.usp.br jercosta@fox.cce.usp.br dpfcunha@oraculo.lcc.ufrng.br murijo@if.usp.br canalle@vrnesa.uerj.br vivian das.inpe.br jmpereira@if.usp.br gio@if.ufrgs.br wilson@vax.iagusp.usp.br fprado@plasma.inpe.br elfimov@bruerj.bitnet leo@lccfis.unb.br nferrari@if.usp.br freire@vax.iagusp.usp.br gomez@iafe.uba.ar denise@vax.iagusp. usp.br dalpino@astrol.iagusp.usp.br grishano@bruerj.bitnet grishano@bruerj.bitnet foton@vax.iagusp.usp.br lcj@ncc.ufrn.br jatenco@vax.iagusp.usp.br kostov@sunsl.fis.unb.br lclbotti@fox.cce.usp.br lopes@pgrad.inpe.br gfirnsan@vrnhpo.uff.br gustavo@vax.iagusp.usp.br jorge@das.inpe.br melrose@physics.usyd.edu.au oswaldo@vax.iagusp.usp.br oiwa@if.usp.br merav@vax.iagusp.usp.br opher@vax.iagusp.usp.br pachao@df.edu.ar pakter@if.ufrgs.br ajp@lanl.gov irina@bruerj.bitnet Astrophysics and Space Science 242: 7-8, 1997.
8 List of participants Name Rafael E. C. Reyes Hisataki Shigueoka MarHia Tavares Nikolai Tretiakov Vladimir Tsypin Kai Ullmann Alberto M. Vasquez Marcos R. Voelzke Luis C. Yamamoto Institute IF-UFF IF-UFF UFG IF-UERJ IF-USP IAFE E-mail address rafael@vax.iagusp.usp.br gfihisa@bruff.bitnet gfimari@vmbpo.uff.br nicolai@ufg.br tsypin@vmesa.uerj.br kai@if.usp.br plasma@iafe.uba.ar voelzke@astrol.iagusp.usp.br yamamoto@vax.iagusp.usp.br
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12 Figure 1. The Chair, Advanced School on Astrophysical and Space Plasmas. From left to right, Professors Gustavo A. Medina Tanco, Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, and Abraham Chian. Figure 2. Gustavo, holding a Caipirinha discusses magnetic merging with Dieter, holding a Bier.
13 Figure 3. Official school dance: The Samba. Figure 4. Bete, giving samba lessons to Tony and Mark: step-and-cut, step-and-cut.
14 Figure 5. Advanced school in session. Figure 6. Reuven Opher summarizes the findings presented by the lecturers.
15 Figure 7. View of Guaruja towards the Atlantic. Figure 8. Return trip from Guaruja to Sao Paulo.
16 Mark Birkinshaw