Umfang:
XIX, 559 S. :
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:
0-7503-0861-3
,
978-0367454654
Serie:
Series in astronomy and astrophysics
Inhalt:
Interstellar dust grains catalyse chemical reactions, absorb, scatter, polarise and re-radiate starlight and constitute the building blocks for the formation of planets. Understanding this interstellar component is therefore of primary importance in many areas of astronomy & astrophysics. For example, observers need to understand how dust effects light passing through molecular clouds. Astrophysicists wish to comprehend how dust enables the collapse of clouds or how it determines the spectral behaviour of protostars, star forming regions or whole galaxies. This book gives a thorough theoretical description of the fundamental physics of interstellar dust: its composition, morphology, size distribution, dynamics, optical and thermal properties, alignment, polarisation, scattering, radiation and spectral features. This encyclopedic book provides the basic physics towards understanding the solid matter in interstellar space. It includes all the necessary physics, including solid state physics, radiative transport, optical properties, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics. It then uses all of this basic physics in the specific case of dust grains in the interstellar medium.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Biologie
Schlagwort(e):
Interstellarer Staub
;
Chemie
;
Interstellarer Staub
;
Physik
;
Interstellarer Staub
