Laboratory astrophysics / Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro, Rafael Escribano, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muñoz Caro, Guillermo Manuel, 1971- editor.

Escribano, Rafael, editor.

Series:

Astrophysics and space science library ; 451.

Astrophysics and space science library, 0067-0057 ; 451

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmochemistry.

Physical Description:

xii, 237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I. Introduction. 1. Dust and ice in the interstellar medium / Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro ; 2. Icy grains in the solar system : cometary and asteroidal environments / Fernando Moreno ; 3. Introduction to spectroscopy and astronomical observations / Rafael Escribano and Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro

Part II. Ice properties. 4. Density of ices of astrophysical interest / Miguel Ángel Satorre, Ramón Luna, Carlos Millán, Manuel Domingo, and Carmina Santonja ; 5. Infrared optical constants and band strengths of ices / Belén Maté ; 6. Quantum chemical description of solids : DFT approach / Oscar Gálvez ; 7. Monte Carlo simulations of the formation and morphology of interstellar ices / Stéphanie Cazaux, Jean Baptiste Bossa, Rafael Martin-Doménech, Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro, Yu-Jung Chen, Harold Linnartz, and Alexander Tielens

Part III. Ice processes. 8. Infrared spectroscopy and programmed thermal desorption of ice mixtures / Rafael Martín-Doménech and Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro ; 9. Photon-induced desorption processes in astrophysical ices / Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro and Rafael Martín Doménech ; 10. Thermal reactivity dynamics in interstellar ice / Patrice Theulé, Jennifer A. Noble, and Pierre Ghesquière

Part IV. Dust grains and plasmas. 11. Spectroscopy of interstellar carbonaceous dust / Víctor J. Herrero, Belén Maté, Germán Molpeceres, Miguel Jiménez-Redondo, and Isabel Tanarro ; 12. Light scattered by cosmic dust at visible wavelengths / Jesús Escobar-Cerezo, Olga Muñoz, and Fernando Moreno ; 13. Infrared spectroscopy of ions of astrophysical interest / José-Luis Doménech

Part V. Astrophysical models. 14. Interstellar chemical models / Marcelino Agúndez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319900196

9783319900193

OCLC:

1028939367

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