Atomic and Molecular Data for Space Astronomy

1. Front Matter

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2. Atomic and molecular data for space astronomy: Needs and availability

   • Peter L. Smith, Wolfgang L. Wiese

   Pages 1-5

3. The hubble space telescope — Scientific problems and laboratory data needs

   • Steven N. Shore

   Pages 7-32

4. Atomic data needed for far ultraviolet astronomy with HUT and FUSE

   • Jeffrey L. Linsky

   Pages 33-42

5. Atomic data needed for analysis of EUV and X-Ray spectra

   • John C. Raymond

   Pages 43-50

6. Atomic and molecular data for observations of the interstellar medium with the hubble space telescope

   • Donald C. Morton

   Pages 51-68

7. Atomic and molecular data needed for analysis of infrared spectra from ISO and SIRTF

   • P. F. Bernath

   Pages 69-83

8. Atomic data from the opacity project

   • C. Mendoza

   Pages 85-119

9. Sources of atomic spectroscopic data for astrophysics

   • W. C. Martin

   Pages 121-147

10. Summary of current molecular databases

    • W. H. Parkinson

    Pages 149-158

11. Back Matter

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This is a very useful reference book for working astronomers and astrophysicists. Forming the proceedings of a recent IAU meeting where the availability and the needs of atomic and molecular data were discussed, the papers published here discuss existing and planned instruments for astronomical spectroscopy from earth-orbiting satellites. In particular, the atomic and molecular parameters that are, or will be, needed for analysis of the data obtained by these instruments are considered. A number of significant shortcomings in the available databases are identified. The needs highlighted will be of interest to laboratory astrophysicists, both experimentalists and theorists, who canproduce the data required. A second group of papers provides a current inventory of atomic and molecular data compilations.

• Astrophysik
• Atomic Data
• Molecular Data
• Space Astronomy
• Spectroscopy
• Spektroskopie
• astronomy
• instruments

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