Dynamics of the Sun and Stars: Honoring the Life and Work of Michael J. Thompson (Paperback)

Part I: The Life and Work of Michael J. Thompson.- Michael Thompson’s Legacy in Solar and Stellar Physics.- Michael Thompson in Sheffield.- Michael J. Thompson: A Remarkable Scientist, Leader, and Friend.- Michael.- Assessing the Threat of Major Outbreaks of Vector-Borne Diseases Under a Changing Climate.- Touching the Interior Structure and Dynamics of Our Nearest Star.- Part II:  Solar Interior and Dynamics.- Uncovering the Hidden Layers of the Sun.- Solar Rotation.- On Solar and Solar-Like Stars Convection, Rotation and Magnetism.- Recent Progress in Local Helioseismology.- Time-Distance Helioseismology of Deep Meridional Circulation.- Surface Rotation and Magnetic Activity of Solar-Like Stars: Impact on Seismic Detections.- Study of Acoustic Halos in NOAA Active Region 12683.- Helioseismic Center-to-Limb Effect and Measured Travel-Time Asymmetries Around Sunspots.- Probing the Variation with Depth of the Solar Meridional Circulation Using Legendre Function Decomposition.- New Inversion Scheme for Time-Distance Helioseismology.- On Active Region Emergence Precursors.- Solar Hemispheric Helicity Rules: A New Explanation.- Comparing Solar Activity Minima Using Acoustic Oscillation Frequencies.- Solar Cycle Variation of Large Scale Plasma Flows.- Measuring the Dispersion Relation of Acoustic-Gravity Waves in the Solar Atmosphere.- Non-adiabatic Helioseismology via 3D Convection Simulations.- Part III: From the Sun to the Stars.- Deciphering Solar Convection.- G Modes and the Solar Core.- Inverse Analysis of Asteroseismic Data: A Review.- Diagnostics from Solar and Stellar Glitches.- Dynamo States with Strikingly Different Symmetries Coexisting in Global Solar Simulations.- Influence of Turbulence on an Essentially Nonlinear Dynamo Mechanism.- Part IV: Stellar Dynamics.- The Tachocline Revisited.- Seismic Signatures of Solar and Stellar Magnetic Activity.- Confinement of Magnetic Fields Below the Solar Convection Zone.- Asteroseismic Study of KIC 11145123: Its Structure and Rotation.- The Impact of a Fossil Magnetic Field on Dipolar Mixed-Mode Frequencies in Sub- and Red-Giant Stars.- Asteroseismic Stellar Modelling: Systematics from the Treatment of the Initial Helium Abundance.- Direct Travel Time of X-ray Class Solar Storms.- On the Limits of Seismic Inversions for Radial Differential Rotation of Solar-Type Stars.- The Physical Origin of the Luminosity Maximum of the RGB-Bump.- A New Utility to Study Strong Chemical Gradients in Stellar Interiors.- 16 Cygni A: A Testbed for Stellar Core Physics.- Exploring the Origins of Intense Magnetism in Early M-Dwarf Stars.- Part V: The Future.- A Future Path for Solar Synoptic Ground-Based Observations.- Observational Asteroseismology of Solar-Like Oscillators in the 2020s and Beyond.- Oblique Pulsation: New, Challenging Observations with TESS Data.- Accounting for Asphericity.- A Comparison of Global Helioseismic-Instrument Performances: Solar-SONG, GOLF and VIRGO.- Open Discussion.- Contemplating the Future.