Preface: Waves and Instabilities in Space and Astrophysical
Plasmas
Pierre-Louis Sulem and Michael Mond ............................. 1
The role Alfven waves in the generation of Earth polar auroras
Fabrice Mottez .................................................. 3
Intermittency and regularity in the Alfvenic range of solar
wind turbulence
A. Mangeney .................................................... 26
Generation of electric currents via neutral-ion drag in the
chromosphere and ionosphere
V. Krasnoselskikh, W.P. Abbett, H. Hudson, G. Vekstein,
and S.D. Bale .................................................. 42
On the energy release in solar flares
L.A. Pustil'nik, N.R. Ikhsanov, and N.G. Beskrovnaya ........... 63
Instability conditions of small-amplitude fluctuations in
space plasmas
R. Schlickeiser ................................................ 71
Parametric decay of Alfven waves at parallel and oblique
propagation: Kinetic effects and transverse couplings
L. Matteini .................................................... 83
Fluid modeling of magnetized plasmas with anisotropic
temperatures
P.L. Sulem and T. Passot ....................................... 94
Rossby waves and zonons in zonostrophic turbulence
Semion Sukoriansky, Nadejda Dikovskaya, Roger Grimshaw,
and Boris Galperin ............................................ 111
Action of differential rotation on the large-scale magnetic
field of stars and planets
Ludovic Petitdemange, Martin Schrinner, and Emmanuel Dormy .... 123
Linear and weakly nonlinear analysis of the magneto-
rotational-instability in thin Keplerian discs
E. Liverts, Yu. Shtemler, and M. Mond ......................... 116
Plasma-like "sausage" oscillations in astrophysical disks
Evgeny Griv ................................................... 154
Heliospheric and astrophysical shocks: Common features and
differences
M. Gedalin and A. Spitkovsky .................................. 172
Electron injection by whistler waves in non-relativistic
shocks
Mario A. Riquelme and Anatoly Spitkovsky ...................... 182
Particle acceleration at relativistic shock waves
Martin Lemoine and Guy Pelletier .............................. 194
Shock-generated turbulence in the innermost 50 pc of the
galaxy center
Itzhak Goldman and Marcella Contini ........................... 209
Ubiquitous thermal instability in active galactic nuclei
outflows
Tomer Holczer and Ehud Behar .................................. 218
The current-driven kink instability in magnetically dominated
relativistic jets
Yosuke Mizuno, Yuri Lyubarsky, Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, and
Philip E. Hardee .............................................. 226
A new look at spherical accretion in high mass X-ray binaries
N.R. Ikhsanov, L.A. Pustil'nik, and N.G. Beskrovnaya .......... 237
Author Index .................................................. 249
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