The Galactic Interstellar Medium: an Overview

✍ Scribed by V. Pirronello; G. Manicò; E. Congiu; G. Vidali; A. Insolia; R. Caruso

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 239 KB
• Volume: 165
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2006.11.014

✦ Synopsis

It is given a bird's eye view of the galactic interstellar environment, its structure and composition. It is also given a short description of some fundamental physico-chemical processes, that are important for gravitational collapse and hence for the formation of stars, for the shaping galaxies, for regulating their dynamics and in a sense for allowing the Universe to be as we observe it today.