Proceedings from the October 1998 world conference, where astrophysicists descended on Nantucket island to discuss the origin of the solar wind, the internal state of the solar wind, large scale structure and dynamics, and the outer heliosphere. Topics of the 198 contributions include space physics before the space age; solar wind measured by interplanetary scintillation method; using LASCO observations to infer solar wind speed near the sun; theory of coronal x-ray jets; importance of global magnetic field geometry and density distribution in solar wind modeling; coronal mass ejections, flares, and prominences; and isotopes in the solar wind new results from ACE, SOHO, and WIND. Includes many color illustrations. Lacks a subject index. The CD-ROM appendix contains animations and figures that could not fit within the page allocation limit for the corresponding manuscripts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The Solar Wind Nine Conference was the ninth in the series of solar wind conferences established in 1964 by Dr. Marcia Neugebauer to provide a forum for the interaction between solar physicists and space physicists interested in the origin and evolution of the solar wind. One of the scientific goals of the conference was to reflect the importance of the synergistic interaction between theory, numerical modeling and simulations, in situ measurements and remote sensing observations, in the exploration of the solar wind. Indeed, the opportunity provided by the many concurrent missions Ulysses, Yohkoh, SOHO, TRACE, SPARTAN, WIND, and ACE, which probe the Sun and interplanetary space from different vantage points, provided very rich material for the contributions. The presentations included invited reviews and contributed talks as well as poster presentations. This conference took place almost 40 years after Parkers prediction of the existence of the solar wind.
