Laboratory Astrophysics
Editors: Muñoz Caro, Guillermo M., Escribano, Rafael (Eds.)
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- 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
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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 this field or observers and modelers searching for information on ice and dust processes.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Dust and Ice in the Interstellar Medium
Pages 3-14
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Icy Grains in the Solar System: Cometary and Asteroidal Environments
Pages 15-26
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Introduction to Spectroscopy and Astronomical Observations
Pages 27-47
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Density of Ices of Astrophysical Interest
Pages 51-69
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Infrared Optical Constants and Band Strengths of Ices
Pages 71-86
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Laboratory Astrophysics
- Editors
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- Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro
- Rafael Escribano
- Series Title
- Astrophysics and Space Science Library
- Series Volume
- 451
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-90020-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-90020-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-90019-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-07916-1
- Series ISSN
- 0067-0057
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 237
- Number of Illustrations
- 47 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
- Topics