Skip to main content
Book cover

Laboratory Astrophysics

  • Book
  • © 2018

Overview

  • Provides a quick entry into laboratory astrophysics and astrochemistry
  • Presents fundamentals of main laboratory astrophysical techniques: spectroscopy, scattering, theoretical models
  • Gives detailed descriptions of astrophysical systems: ice, dust, grains, plasmas
  • Contains very useful material for graduate researchers undertaking studies in astrophysics

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 451)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

eBook USD 99.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Ice Properties

  3. Ice Processes

  4. Dust Grains and Plasmas

  5. Astrophysical Models

Keywords

About this book

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.


Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us