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The Physics of Interstellar Dust
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Interstellar dust clouds catalyze simple chemical reactions, absorb, scatter,
polarize, and re-radiate starlight, and form the building blocks for planet and
stellar formation. Understanding this interstellar medium is then of primary
importance in many areas of astronomy & astrophysics. This book provides a
theoretical description of the fundamental physics of interstellar material,
including a description of its composition, morphology, grain size and
distribution, dynamics, dielectric permeability, radiation scattering and
spectral features. Other chapters describe the surface chemistry, and role of
dust in stellar formation, including the spectral behavior of protostars and
dust around early stars.

Table Of Contents

Preface
1 The dielectric permeability 1
2 How to evaluate grain cross sections 44
3 Very small and very big particles 80
4 Case studies of Mie calculus 119
5 Particle statistics 145
6 The radiative transition probability 175
7 Structure and composition of dust 201
8 Dust radiation 239
9 Dust and its environment 275
10 Polarization 319
11 Grain alignment 347
12 PAHs and spectral features of dust 377
13 Radiative transport 396
14 Diffuse matter in the Milky Way 425
15 Stars and their formation 461
16 Emission from young stars 505
App. A: Mathematical formulae 539
App. B: List of symbols 545
References 549
Index 552

Product Details

* ISBN: 0750308613
* ISBN-13: 9780750308618
* Format: Hardcover, 336pp
* Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
* Pub. Date: December 2002

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