Features
ISBN Number: 9780521844833
Author: Flower, David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Editor: King, Andrew
Editor: Lin, Douglas
Location: Cambridge
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject: Molecular dynamics
Subject: Interstellar matter
Copyright: 2007
Edition Number: 2
Edition Description: Revised Hardcover
Series: Cambridge Astrophysics
Series Volume: 42
Publication Date: March 2007
Cover Type: Hardcover
Grade Level: Professional and scholarly
Written in: English
Illustrations: Y
Number of Pages: 187
Book Size: 979x709x56 123
This book provides an introduction to the theory of atomic and molecular collision processes which occur in the interstellar medium. It is directed towards graduate students and research workers in the fields of astrophysics and astrochemistry who wish to analyse and interpret observations of the interstellar gas. The book will also be of interest to physical chemists who seek a better appreciation of their discipline to an important and expanding area of astronomy. The text deals primarily with processes occuring in interstellar molecular clouds, where the electron density is low and collisions with the abundant neutral species, H, H2, and He, predominate. As the energies involved are very small, the theory is necessarily based on the quantum mechanical method with simpler, classical models being used to interpret the results wherever possible. The compilation of sources of data pertaining to the rotational excitation of interstellar molecules will be helpful to radioastronomers interpreting mm-wave observations of molecular clouds. Synopsis:
A comprehensive manual for studying the collisional and radiative processes observed in the interstellar medium, this second edition has been thoroughly updated. This book will be ideal for researchers involved in the interstellar medium and star formation, and physical chemists specializing in collision theory and the measurement of collision rates.
Synopsis:
Comprehensive second edition for researchers in the interstellar medium and physical chemists in collision theory.
Synopsis:
In the interstellar medium - the space between the stars in galaxies - new stars are born from material that is replenished by the debris ejected by stars when they die. This book is a comprehensive manual for studying the collisional and radiative processes observed in the interstellar medium. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and extended to cover related topics in radiation theory. It considers the chemistry of the interstellar medium both at the present epoch and in the early Universe, and discusses the physics and chemistry of shock waves. The methods of calculation of the rates of collisional excitation of interstellar molecules and atoms are explained, emphasising the quantum mechanical method. This book will be ideal for researchers involved in the interstellar medium and star formation, and physical chemists specialising in collision theory or in the measurement of the rates of collision processes.
