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A Dirty Window - Diffuse and Translucent Molecular Gas in the Interstellar Medium (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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A Dirty Window - Diffuse and Translucent Molecular Gas in the Interstellar Medium (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 442
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This book provides an introduction to the physics of interstellar
gas in the Galaxy. It deals with the diffuse interstellar medium
which supplies a complex environment for exploring the neutral gas
content of a galaxy like the Milky Way and the techniques necessary
for studying this non-stellar component. After an initial
exposition of the phases of the interstellar medium and the role of
gas in a spiral galaxy, the authors discuss the transition from
atomic to molecular gas. They then consider basic radiative
transfer and molecular spectroscopy with particular emphasis on the
molecules useful for studying low-density molecular gas.
Observational techniques for investigating the gas and the dust
component of the diffuse interstellar medium throughout the
electromagnetic spectrum are explored emphasizing results from the
recent Herschel and Planck missions. A brief exposition on dust in
the diffuse interstellar medium is followed by a discussion of
molecular clouds in general and high-latitude molecular clouds in
particular. Ways of calibrating CO observations with the molecular
hydrogen content of a cloud are examined along with the dark
molecular gas controversy. High-latitude molecular clouds are
considered in detail as vehicles for applying the techniques
developed in the book. Given the transient nature of diffuse and
translucent molecular clouds, the role of turbulence in the origin
and dynamics of these objects is examined in some detail. The book
is targeted at graduate students or postdocs who are entering the
field of interstellar medium studies.
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