Structure and Dynamics of the Interstellar medium

✍ Scribed by Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle, Mariano Moles, Jorge Melnick

• Book ID: 127430674
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Series: LNP0350
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library
• ISBN-13: 9783540519560

✦ Synopsis

Here for the first time is a book that treats practically all aspects of modern research in interstellar matter astrophysics. 20 review articles and 40 carefully selected and refereed papers give a thorough overview of the field and convey the flavor of enthusiastic colloquium discussions to the reader. The book includes sections on: - Molecular clouds, star formation and HII regions - Mechanical energy sources - Discs, outflows, jets and HH objects - The Orion Nebula - The extragalactic interstellar medium - Interstellar matter at high galactic latitudes - The structure of the interstellar medium