Laboratory Astrophysics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Dust and Ice in the Interstellar Medium

      • Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro

      Pages 3-14

   3. Icy Grains in the Solar System: Cometary and Asteroidal Environments

      • Fernando Moreno

      Pages 15-26

   4. Introduction to Spectroscopy and Astronomical Observations

      • Rafael Escribano, Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro

      Pages 27-47

3. Ice Properties

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Density of Ices of Astrophysical Interest

      • Miguel Ángel Satorre, Ramón Luna, Carlos Millán, Manuel Domingo, Carmina Santonja

      Pages 51-69

   3. Infrared Optical Constants and Band Strengths of Ices

      • Belén Maté

      Pages 71-86

   4. Quantum Chemical Description of Solids: DFT Approach

      • Oscar Gálvez Gálvez

      Pages 87-94

   5. Monte Carlo Simulations of the Formation and Morphology of Interstellar Ices

      • Stéphanie Cazaux, Jean Baptiste Bossa, Rafael Martin-Doménech, Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro, Yu-Jung Chen, Harold Linnartz et al.

      Pages 95-110

4. Ice Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Infrared Spectroscopy and Programmed Thermal Desorption of Ice Mixtures

      • Rafael Martín-Doménech, Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro

      Pages 113-132

   3. Photon-Induced Desorption Processes in Astrophysical Ices

      • Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro, Rafael Martín Doménech

      Pages 133-147

   4. Thermal Reactivity Dynamics in Interstellar Ice

      • Patrice Theulé, Jennifer A. Noble, Pierre Ghesquière

      Pages 149-155

5. Dust Grains and Plasmas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Spectroscopy of Interstellar Carbonaceous Dust

      • Víctor J. Herrero, Belén Maté, Germán Molpeceres, Miguel Jiménez-Redondo, Isabel Tanarro

      Pages 159-171

   3. Light Scattered by Cosmic Dust at Visible Wavelengths

      • Jesús Escobar-Cerezo, Olga Muñoz, Fernando Moreno

      Pages 173-193

   4. Infrared Spectroscopy of Ions of Astrophysical Interest

      • José-Luis Doménech

      Pages 195-216

6. Astrophysical Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. Interstellar Chemical Models

      • Marcelino Agúndez

      Pages 219-232

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 thisfield or observers and modelers searching for information on ice and dust processes.

• Dust, ice, grain mantles
• Interstellar medium
• Light scattering, infrared techniques, plasmas
• Cosmic dust, carbonaceous particles
• Astrophysical models
• Simulated space conditions
• Interstellar ices
• Spectroscopy in astrophysics
• Astrophysical systems

• Centro de Astrobiología, INTA-CSIC, Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain

  Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro

• Inst. de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

  Rafael Escribano

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