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This textbook is intended as an introduction to the physics of solar and stellar coronae, emphasizing kinetic plasma processes. It is addressed to observational astronomers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates without a background in plasma physics. Coronal physics is today a vast field with many different aims and goals. Sorting out the really important aspects of an observed phenomenon and using the physics best suited for the case is a formidable problem. There are already several excellent books, oriented toward the interests of astrophysicists, that deal with the magnetohydrodynamics of stellar atmospheres, radiation transport, and radiation theory. | As ASTROPHYSICS AND S _ SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS Kinetic Processes in Solar and Stellar Coronae Second Edition ARNOLDO. BENZ KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 279 EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman . BURTON National Radio Astronomy Observatory Charlottesville Virginia . burton@ University of Leiden TheNetherlands burton@ Executivecommittee J. M. E. KUIJPERS Faculty of Science Nijmegen The Netherlands E. p. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL Astronomical liNliliile University of Amsterdam hhe NelPerlands E. NAtRAER OAAN AstEOhomicaiSnrti0ute UnNert eyofl tntchl The Totherlande MTMBERS I. APPENZELLER Landesstemwarte Heidelberg-Kônigstuhl Germany J. N. BAHCALL The Institute fdrAdvasoed Study Princeton . OOi im cretdtiiOaOovo ItKy J . p. VCNSICELLI lOnNiỉri ilo of Wisconsin Madison . c. J. CESARSKY CentrsFEtudes RcScday GiO-sur-Seette Nedex France o. ENGVOLD plnstCdteofThEOrrAeslOstrophyeini UmvereiiyoAOrle Norway R-MrCRAC UnivecsityoOCoSacado CNA Bootc es . OpiTTi Io ofreSS lom mT Oen r tiso UK. F. dACINI stitctsOetrooPuiaAeceiri Finenvo Itaty UCamanRopnaroOCostitute Nvnaalorr India K. SATO CSoo ofScioncn TOcUnivnrsrloofToOAO JupaN .RAF Unóc-ó tyeNCcl ifceoia TucOeloy . . SOAERAitrenomicol bn OC to MoucwOro tii Universits Ruscia R. A. su NJdHV. SAascResearehOnvtrtute MoscoN Russia Y. TAVi AKA ddititurn ofSpase StceoelOo UtM noWsKlhlKRA S0oro aiJaoool FJ. TREMCINE . PriocetoT l ioivei ity . C. .et css UeivcrsityofAeoibedeht .