The Local Bubble and Beyond

1. Front Matter

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2. Lyman Spitzer 1914 – 1997

   • Franz Kahn

   Pages 1-4

3. Introductory lecture: The local and general interstellar medium

   • Dieter Breitschwerdt

   Pages 5-16

4. Observations of the local interstellar cloud

   • R. Lallement

   Pages 17-28

5. The intrinsic properties of the local interstellar medium

   • Olivia Puyoo, Lotfi Ben Jaffel

   Pages 29-32

6. A thermal pressure inside the local bubble, as revealed by CI fine-structure excitation

   • Edward B. Jenkins

   Pages 33-36

7. Ultra-high resolution Ca II observations of the LISM

   • Barry Y. Welsh, Rosine Lallement, Ian Crawford

   Pages 37-40

8. EURD: An extreme ultraviolet spectrograph to probe the hot interstellar medium

   • C. Morales, J. Trapero, J. F. Gómez, S. Bowyer, J. Edelstein, M. Lampton

   Pages 41-44

9. New insights on the local ISM from EUV observations

   • Stuart Bowyer

   Pages 45-56

10. Spectral observations of the diffuse FUV background with DUVE (the diffuse UV experiment)

    • Eric J. Korpela, Stuart Bowyer

    Pages 57-60

11. The thermal pressure of the interstellar medium derived from cloud shadows in the extreme ultraviolet

    • Thomas W. Berghöfer, Stuart Bowyer, Richard Lieu, Jens Knude

    Pages 61-64

12. The structure of the local hot bubble toward l = 165°, b = 0° using IUE and ROSAT data

    • K. S. de Boer, J. Kerp

    Pages 65-68

13. The interstellar and circumstellar environment of white dwarfs

    • M. A. Barstow, P. D. Dobbie, J. B. Holberg

    Pages 69-74

14. D/H-ratio: Observations with ORFEUS II

    • M. Gölz, N. Kappelmann, I. Appenzeller, J. Barnstedt, A. Fromm, M. Grewing et al.

    Pages 75-78

15. The diffuse extreme ultraviolet background

    • John Vallerga, Jonathan Slavin

    Pages 79-82

16. The soft X-ray background spectrum from DXS

    • W. T. Sanders, R. J. Edgar, D. A. Liedahl, J. P. Morgenthaler

    Pages 83-90

17. GRADES: A new instrument for spectroscopy of the local hot gas

    • M. Hurwitz, C. McKee, J. Edelstein, J. Vallerga, P. Jelinsky, M. Freyberg et al.

    Pages 91-94

18. Planned observations of hot gas in the LISM

    • R. McLean, J. C. Green, K. S. Gunderson

    Pages 95-98

19. Interstellar C IV and Si IV in the direction of loop I

    • Rubens Freire Ferrero

    Pages 99-102

20. A new view of the LHB and 1/4 keV X-ray halo

    • S. L. Snowden

    Pages 103-112

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the current observational and theoretical status in the field of the local and general interstellar medium. It contains contributions presented at the IAU Colloquium No. 166. Review articles and highlight talks will serve both as an introduction to the field for the undergraduate or the non-specialist and also give a summary of the most recent developments for the expert and researcher. These articles are supplemented by a representative number of original research papers. All contributions are fully refereed and have been edited with extensive care to provide a high-standard reference book. The scientific content spans a wide range from solar system measurements of dust grains to X-ray emission from distant galaxies.

• Galaktische Halos
• Hochgeschwindigkeitswolken
• Interstellare Scheibe-Halo-Verbindung
• Interstellares Medium
• Kosmische Strahlung
• cosmic rays
• dust
• galactic halos
• high velocity clouds
• interstellar disk-halo connection
• interstellar mediums
• local bubbl

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