Energetic Particles in the Heliosphere [Hardcover]

This monograph traces the development of our understanding of how and where energetic particles are accelerated in the heliosphere and how they may reach the Earth. Detailed data sets are presented which address these topics. The bulk of the observations are from spacecraft in or near the ecliptic plane. It is timely to present this subject now that Voyager-1 has entered the true interstellar medium. Since it seems unlikely that there will be a follow-on to the Voyager programme any time soon, the data we already have regarding the outer heliosphere are not going to be enhanced for at least 40 years.Introduction.- Instrumentation.- Energetic Particle Acceleration.- Solar Electrons as a Probe of the Inner Heliosphere.- Studies of Energetic Ions in the Inner Heliosphere.- Corotating Interaction Regions.- Studies onf the High Latitude Heliosphere.- The Anomalus Cosmic Ray.- Studies of the Distant Heliosphere beyond Jupiter.- Energetic Particles From Planetary Magnetospheres.- What about the Future?.- The book provides an excellent overview of our current knowledge of energetic charged particles in heliosphere. It brings out the complexity of these data and highlights the challenges that we face when interpreting these data against our still-limited theoretical understanding of how the heliosphere work. (Mike Hapgood, The Observatory, April, 2018)

George Simnett obtained his Ph D from Imperial College, London in 1966, having started there in 1961.

This was the dawn of the space age. In 1967 he moved to Goddard Space Flight Center where he worked on the energetic particle data from IMP-4 and IMP=5.  In 1969 he went as Assistant Professor to the University of California, Riverside, where he was project manager on an instrument to detect energetic solar neutrons using the UCR balloon-borne detector. In 1975, now based at the University of Birmingham, UK, he collaborated with Professor de Jager (PI), Utrecht, tlY