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The Cosmic Dust Connection

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. J. Mayo Greenberg

    1. Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 487)

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Formation and Evolution of Interstellar Icy Grain Mantles

    • W. A. Schutte
    Pages 1-42

  3. The Core-Mantle Interstellar Dust Model

    • J. Mayo Greenberg, Aigen Li
    Pages 43-70

  4. Organic Material in the Interstellar Medium

    • Yvonne Pendleton
    Pages 71-80

  5. PAHs, They’re Everywhere!

    • L. J. Allamandola
    Pages 81-102

  6. Neutral and Ionized PAH Spectral Properties

    • Farid Salama
    Pages 103-115

  7. Absorption Spectra of HI Clouds

    • Jacek KreÅ‚owski
    Pages 117-132

  8. Infrared Spectroscopy of Interstellar Ices

    • D. C. B. Whittet
    Pages 133-154

  9. Polarization Of Starlight By Interstellar Dust

    • D. C. B. Whittet
    Pages 155-170

  10. Observations of CO Ices in Molecular Clouds

    • J. E. Chiar, D. C. B. Whittet, A. J. Adamson, T. H. Kerr
    Pages 171-177

  11. Determination of the Optical Constants of Ices in the Mid-Infrared

    • Frédéric Trotta, Bernard Schmitt
    Pages 179-184

  12. Some Astrophysical Applications of Ion Irradiation Experiments

    • G. A. Baratta, A. C. Castorina, M. E. Palumbo, G. Strazzulla
    Pages 185-204

  13. Grain Formation and Metamorphism

    • Joseph A. Nuth III
    Pages 205-221

  14. Optical Data of Glassy Pyroxenes and Olivines

    • H. Mutschke, B. Begemann, J. Dorschner, C. Jäger, Th. Henning
    Pages 223-231

  15. Dust In Herbig Ae/Be Stars and the Cosmic Dust Connection

    • Michael L. Sitko, Carol A. Grady, Martha S. Hanner, David K. Lynch, Ray W. Russell
    Pages 233-239

  16. Statistical Properties of the Interstellar Dust in Faint Early-Type Galaxies

    • I. Trifalenkov
    Pages 241-245

  17. The Tauvex UV Imager and Its Contribution to the Study of Dust

    • N. Brosch
    Pages 247-255

  18. Dust Properties And Distribution in the UV

    • Benny Bilenko, Noah Brosch
    Pages 257-263

  19. Extinction and Infrared Emission from Fractal Dust Grains

    • M. E. Fogel, C. M. Leung
    Pages 265-271

  20. Modeling Astrophysical Phenomena Involving Dust

    • Chun Ming Leung
    Pages 273-290
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Solid particles are followed from their creation through their evolution in the Galaxy to their participation in the formation of solar systems like our own, these being now clearly deduced from observations by the Hubble Space Telescope as well as by IR and visual observations of protostellar disks, like that of the famous Beta Pictoris object. The most recent observational, laboratory and theoretical methods are examined in detail. In our own solar system, studies of meteorites, comets and comet dust reveal many features that follow directly from the interstellar dust from which they formed. The properties of interstellar dust provide possible keys to its origin in comets and asteroids and its ultimate origin in the early solar system. But this is a continuing story: what happens to the solid particles in space after they emerge from stellar sources has important scientific consequences since it ultimately bears on our own origins - the origins of solar systems and, especially, of our own earth and life in the universe.

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  • Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

    J. Mayo Greenberg

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