Vinod Krishan, Astrophysical Plasmas and Fluids, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, paperback); this is an up-to-date (1999) text written at an appropriate level
Other texts to which you man wish to refer:
1) Peter A. Surrock, Plasma Physics
2) Nicholas A. Krall & Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Principles of Plasma Physics
3) Lyman Spitzer, Jr., Physics of Fully Ionized Gases
4) George B. Rybicki & Alan P. Lightman, Radiative Processes in Astrophysics
This course is designed to give physicists and astronomers a grounding in the basics of plasma dynamics and stability. Both fluid and kinetic descriptions of ionized gases will be studied. Applications will mainly involve important plasma processes in astrophysical situations.
Nature of Plasmas on Earth and in Space
Motion of Charged Particles in Electromagnetic Fields
Waves in Plasmas
Instabilities in Plasmas
Transport Processes in Plasmas
Radio Galaxies: Synchrotron Emission
Solar Corona: Reconnection and Particle Acceleration
Pulsars: Coherent Emission
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