Laboratory astrophysics
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Laboratory astrophysics
（Astrophysics and space science library, 451）
Springer, c2018
Available at 4 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book focuses on the most recent, relevant, comprehensive and significant aspects in the well-established multidisciplinary field Laboratory Astrophysics. It focuses on astrophysical environments, which include asteroids, comets, the interstellar medium, and circumstellar and circumplanetary regions. Its scope lies between physics and chemistry, since it explores physical properties of the gas, ice, and dust present in those systems, as well as chemical reactions occurring in the gas phase, the bare dust surface, or in the ice bulk and its surface. Each chapter provides the necessary mathematical background to understand the subject, followed by a case study of the corresponding system.
The book provides adequate material to help interpret the observations, or the computer models of astrophysical environments. It introduces and describes the use of spectroscopic tools for laboratory astrophysics. This book is mainly addressed to PhD graduates working in this field or observers and modelers searching for information on ice and dust processes.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
1. Dust and ice in the interstellar medium, Guillermo M. Munoz Caro
2. Icy grains in the Solar System: cometary and asteroidal environments, Fernando Moreno
3. Introduction to Spectroscopy, Rafael Escribano
ICE PROPERTIES
4. Density of ices of astrophysical interest, Miguel Angel Satorre, Ramon Luna, Carlos Millan, Manuel Domingo, and Carmina Santonja
5. Infrared optical constants and band strengths of ices, Belen Mate
6. Quantum-chemical description of solids: DFT approach, Oscar Galvez
7. Monte Carlo simulations of porosity and accretion in ices, Stephanie Cazaux, Jean Baptiste Bossa, Rafael Martin Domenech, Guillermo Munoz Caro, Asper Chen, Harold Linnartz and Alexander Tielens
ICE PROCESSES
8. Infrared spectroscopy and programmed thermal desorption of ice mixtures, Rafael Martin-Domenech and Guillermo M. Munoz Caro
9. Photon-induced desorption processes in astrophysical ices, Guillermo M. Munoz Caro and Rafael Martin-Domenech
10. Thermal reactivity in interstellar ice, Patrice Theule, F. Duvernay, G. Danger, F. Borget, J.B. Bossa, J.A. Noble, N. Abou Mrad, V. Vinogradoff, F. Mispelaer, and T. Chiavassa
DUST GRAINS AND PLASMAS
11. Spectroscopy of interstellar carbonaceous dust, Victor J. Herrero, Belen Mate, German Molpeceres, Miguel Jimenez-Redondo, Isabel Tanarro and Rafael Escribano
12. Light scattered by cosmic dust at visible wavelengths: The IAA Cosmic Dust Laboratory, Olga Munoz, Fernando Moreno and Jesus Escobar-Cerezo
13. Spectroscopy of plasmas of astrophysical interest, Maite Cueto, Jose Luis Domenech, Victor Herrero, Isabel Tanarro and Jose Cernicharo
ASTROPHYSICAL MODELS
14. Interstellar Chemical Models, Marcelino Agundez
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