●About This Book
●Plasma Astrophysics: History and Neighbours
●1 Particles and Fields: Exact Self-Consistent Description
●11 Interacting particles and Liouville's theorem
●111 Continuity in phase space
●112 The character of particle interactions
●113 The Lorentz force, gravity
●114 Collisional friction in plasma
●115 The exact distribution function
●12 Charged particles in the electromagnetic field
●121 General formulation of the problem
●122 The continuity equation for electric charge
●123 Initial equations and initial conditions
●124 Astrophysical plasma applications
●13 Gravitational systems
●14 Practice: Exercises and Answers
●2 Statistical Description of Interacting Particle Systems
●21 The averaging of Liouville's equation
●211 Averaging over phase space
●212 Two statistical postulates
●部分目錄

等離子天體物理學共分兩冊，是關於等離子體天體物理學的經典理論和實驗基礎、當前發展水平的深入淺出的專著。本書作為靠前部分，提供了理解等離子體天體物理學所需要的全部基本原理和實際工具，包括粒子物理，場論，統計物理，引力繫統以及等離子體中的粒子的運動、粒子與波相互作用，天體物理等離子體的各種模型，MHD 的各種性質等等。本書主要是給等離子體天體物理領域的研究者提供參考之用，也同時會成為本專業以及空間物理、地球物理等專業的研究生感興趣的讀物。