J.E. Dyson (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK), D.A. Williams (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds,

The Physics of the Interstellar Medium

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This third edition of The Physics of the Interstellar Medium continues to introduce advanced undergraduates to the fundamental processes and the wide range of disciplines needed to understand observations of the interstellar medium and its role in the Milky Way galaxy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 3 ed
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 234mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780367904234
• ISBN-10: 0367904233
• Artikelnr.: 59927235

Autorenporträt

John Dyson made outstanding research contributions over many years to our understanding of the responses of interstellar media to winds from stars and from active galaxies. He had a huge influence on these subjects and his work gained an international reputation. Much of his career was at the University of Manchester where he became Professor of Astronomy and Head of Astrophysics. He moved in 1996 to the University of Leeds, becoming Dean of Research, and was appointed Emeritus Research Professor in 2006. He died in 2010 and is much missed by friends and colleagues world-wide who valued his scientific insight, quick wit, kindness and generosity. David Williams is currently Emeritus Perren Professor of Astronomy at University College London. While at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the 1960s he became interested in interstellar molecules and interstellar dust as potential probes of the interstellar medium. When John Dyson and David were both working in Manchester, John emphasised the importance of cosmic gas dynamics in understanding interstellar chemistry and dust, and David built a research group at UMIST to investigate these and other topics. He left Manchester in 1994 for UCL and has continued to study problems in interstellar physics and chemistry.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
............................................................................vii
Some Relevant Physical and Astronomical
Information...................................ix
Authors.............................................................................................................xi
Chapter 1
Introduction.....................................................................................
1
Chapter 2 How We Obtain Information about the Interstellar
Medium........... 9
Chapter 3 Microscopic Processes in the Interstellar Medium
......................... 31
Chapter 4 Interstellar
Grains..........................................................................
51
Chapter 5 Radiatively Excited
Regions........................................................... 79
Chapter 6 Introduction to Gas Dynamics
.................................................... 103
Chapter 7 Gas Dynamical Effects of Stars on the Interstellar Medium........
135
Chapter 8 Star Formation and Star-Forming
Regions.................................. 169
Answers to Problems
......................................................................................
187
Index..............................................................................................................
191