Eugene Parker Bibliography

Papers, etc.

Some information is in the Archival Biographical File at the University of Chicago.

Other References: Historical

American Geophysical Union, The Geophysics History Project
“Geomagnetism: Theories of Since 1900”
http://www.agu.org/history/mf/articles/Geomag20.html

Parker, Eugene N., “Mass Ejection and a Brief History of the Solar Wind Concept,” in Cosmic Winds and the Heliosphere, Jokipii, J.R., et al, eds. (U of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1997), pp. 3-27.

Parker, E.N., “Adventures With the Geomagnetic Field,” in Discovery of the Magnetosphere, C. Stewart Gillmor and John R. Spreiter, Eds. (American Geophysical Union, 1997).

Parker, E.N., “Reflections on Macrophysics and the Sun (Special Historical Review),” Solar Physics 176, 2, 219-47 (1998).

Parker, E.N., “A History of the Solar Wind Concept” in The Century of Space Science, Vol. I., Eds. M Huber, J. Geiss, and J. Bleeker (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002).

Parker, E.N., “A History of Early Work on the Heliospheric Magnetic Field,” Journal of Geophysical Research 106, A8, 15797-802 (2001).

Stern, David P. & Mauricio Peredo, “The Solar Wind,” (1995)
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/whsolwi.html

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Other References:Scientific

Parker, E.N., “Dynamics of the Interplanetary Gas and Magnetic Fields,” Ap.J. 128, 664-76 (1958). [reprinted in the centennial edition Ap.J. 525C, 781 (1999) with a modern commentary by E.N. Parker]

Parker, E.N., “The Hydrodynamic Theory of Solar Corpuscular Radiation and Stellar Winds,” Ap.J. 132, 821-66 (1960).

Parker, E.N., Astrophysics and Many-body Problems, (W.A. Benjamin, NY, 1963).

Parker, E.N., Interplanetary Dynamical Processes , (Interscience Publishers, NY, 1963).

Parker, E.N., “Dynamical Properties of Stellar Coronas and Stellar Winds,” Ap.J. 139, 72-92 (1964); 139, 93-122 (1964); and 139, 690-709 (1964).

Parker, E.N., “The Origin of Magnetic Fields,” Ap.J. 160, 383-404 (1970).

Parker, E.N., “The Origin of Solar Magnetic Fields,” Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 8, 1-30 (1970).

Parker, E.N., “Basic Properties of Magnetic Flux Tubes and Restrictions on Theories of Solar Activity” Astrophys & Space Sci 44, 107-17 (1976).

Parker, E.N., “The Origin of Solar Activity,” Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 15, 45-68 (1977).

Parker, E.N., et al, “A Broad Look at Solar Physics Adapted from the Solar Physics Study of August 1975,” in Solar System Plasma Physics, Vol. 1. (North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1979), p. 3-49.

Parker, E.N., “Sunspots and the Physics of Magnetic Flux Tubes,” Ap.J. 230, 905-13 (1979); 230, 914-23 (1979); 231, 250-59 (1979); 231, 270-76 (1979); 232, 282-90 (1979); 232, 291-96 (1979); 233, 1005-15 (1979); and 234, 333-47 (1979).

Tsinganos, K.C., “Sunspots and the Physics of Magnetic Flux Tubes. IV. Aerodynamic Lift on a Thin Cylinder in Convective Flows,” Ap.J. 231, 260-69 (1979).

Kennel, Charles F. , Louis J. Lanzerotti, & E. N. Parker, eds., Magnetospheres (North-Holland Pub. Co., NY, 1979).

Parker, E.N., Charles F. Kennel, & Louis J. Lanzerotti, eds., Solar and Solar Wind Plasma Physics (North-Holland Pub. Co., NY, 1979).

Lanzerotti, Louis J., Charles F. Kennel, & E. N. Parker, eds., Solar System Plasma Processes (North-Holland Pub. Co., NY, 1979).

Parker, E.N., Cosmical Magnetic Fields: Their Origin and Their Activity (Clarendon Press., Oxford & NY, 1979).

Parker, E.N., “Photospheric Flow and Stellar Winds,” Ap.J. 251, 266-70 (1981).

Parker, E.N., “Magnetic Neutral Sheets in Evolving Fields” Ap.J. 264, 635-41 (1983) & Ap.J. 264, 642-47 (1983).

Parker, E.N., “The Future of Solar Physics” Solar Physics 100, 599-619 (1985).

Parker, E.N., “Why Do Stars Emit X-Rays?” Physics Today 40, 36 (1987).

Parker, E.N., “Solar and Stellar Magnetic Fields and Atmospheric Structures - Theory” Solar Physics 121, 271-88 (1989).

Parker, E.N., “Heating Solar Coronal Holes,” Ap.J. 372, 719 (1991).

Parker, E.N., “Convection, Spontaneous Discontinuities, and Stellar Winds and X-Ray Emission (Karl Schwarzschild Lecture 1990),“ Reviews in Modern Astronomy4, 1-17 (1991).

Parker, E.N., “Space Plasma and its Origin at the Sun,” Physics of Fluids B 3, 8, pt. 2, 2367-2373 (1992).

Parker, E.N., “Fast Dynamos, Cosmic Rays, and the Galactic Magnetic Field,” Ap. J. 401, 137 (1992).

Parker, E.N., “A Solar Dynamo Surface Wave at the Interface between Convection and Nonuniform Rotation,” Ap. J. 408, 707 (1993).

Parker, Eugene N. Spontaneous Current Sheets in Magnetic Fields: With Applications to Stellar X-rays (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, UK, 1994).

Parker, E.N., “The Alternative Paradigm for Magnetospheric Physics,” Journal of Geophysical Research 101, A5, 10587-10626 (1996).

Parker, E.N., “The X-ray Coronae of Solitary Late-Type Stars,” Solar Physics 169, 327 (1996).

Parker, E.N., “The Sun: the Ultimate Challenge to Astrophysics,” Advances in Space Research 21, 1-2, 267-274 (1998).

Parker, E.N., “Solar Flares, the Solar Corona, and Solar Physic,” in Highly Energetic Physical Processes and Mechanisms for Emission from Astrophysical Plasmas, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #195, held at Montana State University -- Bozeman, 6-10 July 1999 (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2000), p. 455.

Parker, E.N., “Space Physics Before the Space Age,” Ap.J. 525C, 792-93 (1999).

Parker, E.N., “The Physics of the Sun and the Gateway to the Stars,” Physics Today 53, 6, 26–31 (2000).

Parker, E.N., “Heating the Solar X-Ray Corona,” in D.E. Innes, A. Lagg ∧ S.K. Solanki, eds., Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference on Chromospheric and Coronal Magnetic Fields (ESA SP-596). 30 August - 2 September 2005, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany (Published on CD-ROM), pp. 1.1-1.7.

Parker, E.N., “Mass Ejection and a Brief History of the Solar Wind Concept,” in Michael L. Mishchenko, Larry D. Travis & Andrew A. Lacis, eds., Multiple Scattering of Light by Particles (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 2006), pp. 3-30.

Parker, Eugene N., Conversations on Electric and Magnetic Fields in the Cosmos (Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007).

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Other Works: Popularizations, History, etc.

Parker, E.N., “The Sun,” Scientific American 233, 3, 42 (1975).

Parker, E.N., “Magnetic Fields in the Cosmos,” Scientific American 249, 2, 44 (1983).

Parker, E.N., “The Martial Art of Scientific Publication,” Eos 78, 391, 393, 395 (1997).

Parker, Eugene N., “Shielding Space Travelers,” Scientific American 294, 3, 40-47 (2006).

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