Plasma and the Universe: Dedicated to Professor Hannes Alfvén on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, 30 May 1988

Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Hannes Alfvén on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, 30 May 1988.- Observations of Propagating Double Layers in a High Current Discharge.- Critical Ionization Velocity Interaction: Some Unsolved Problems.- Velocity Limitation of a Neutral Dust Cloud Colliding with a Magnetized Plasma.- Dynamical Aspects of Electrostatic Double Layers.- Cosmic Electric Currents and the Generalized Bennett Relation.- Elementary Ideas Behind Plasma Physics.- The Dielectric Analogue of Magnetohydrodynamics.- Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interactions -- Near-Earth Manifestations of the Plasma Universe.- Acceleration of Auroral Particles by Magnetic-Field Aligned Electric Fields.- Parallel Electric Fields Accelerating Ions and Electrons in the Same Direction.- Birkeland Currents in the Earth's Magnetosphere.- Auroral and Magnetic Variations in the Polar Cusp and Cleft -- Signatures of Magnetopause Boundary-Layer Dynamics.- Plasma Acceleration, Injection, and Loss: Observational Aspects.- Charged Dust in the Earth's Magnetosphere.- Generalized Adiabatic Theory Applied to the Magnetotail Current Sheet.- Particle Dynamics and Currents in the Magnetotail.- Hydromagnetic Waves Associated with Possible Flux Transfer Events.- Free Convection and Mass Transfer Effects on the Magnetohydrodynamic Flows Near a Moving Plate in a Rotating Medium.- An Electric-Current Description of Solar Flares.- Solar Flares through Electric Current.- Global Wave Patterns in the Sun's Magnetic Field.- Temporal Variations of Low-Energy Cosmic-Ray Protons on Decade to and Million Year Time-Scales: Implications to Their Origin.- Electrodynamics of the EUV/X-ray Bright Point and Filamentary Flux Loop Complexes.- Peculiar Solar Flares and Plages of Possible Interest for the Study of Electric Quadrupole Lines of Na I and Mg II.- Band Structure of the Solar System: An Objective Test of the Grouping of Planets and Satellites.- The Cosmogonic Shadow Effect.- The Role of Magneto-hydrodynamics in Heliospheric Space Plasma Physics Research.- Alfvén Waves in a Space Plasma and Its Role in the Solar Wind Interaction with Comets.- Modeling a Cometary Nucleus.- Filamentation of Volcanic Plumes on the Jovian Satellite Io.- In Situ Acceleration and Gradients of Charged Particles in the Outer Solar System Observed by the Voyager Spacecraft.- Interaction of Interstellar Pick-Up Ions with the Solar Wind.- The Even-Odd Systematics in R-Process Nuclide Abundances.- The Solubility Problem of Heavy Elements in Internal Stellar Plasma Revisited.- Electron Heating in Superhigh Mach Number Shocks.- 'Dead' Pulsars: Cosmic-Ray Sources.- The Effects of Mutual Irradiation on the Observed Radial Velocity of the Components of Close Binary Systems.- Magnetic Confinement of Cosmic Clouds.- Mass Pick-Up in Astronomical Flows.- Infrared Emission from Interstellar Plasma.- On the Fluctuations of the Surface Brightness of Galaxies.- On the Dynamics of the Metagalaxy.- Tearing Down Disciplinary Barriers.