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From Observations to Self-Consistent Modelling of the ISM in Galaxies - A JENAM 2002 Workshop, Porto, Portugal, 3-5 September 2002 (Hardcover)
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From Observations to Self-Consistent Modelling of the ISM in Galaxies - A JENAM 2002 Workshop, Porto, Portugal, 3-5 September 2002 (Hardcover)
Series: NATO Science Series II
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Research of the interstellar medium (ISM) has been advancing
rapidly during the last 10 years, mainly due to immensely improved
observational facilities and techniques in all wavelength ranges.
We are now able to investigate the ISM in external galaxies and
even the intergalactic and intracluster medium in great detail.
Increased spatial and spectral resolution have provided us with a
great deal of information on the interstellar gas in its various
phases, the magnetic field and the cosmic rays, and of course, also
the stellar component, which is the driving agent of the
interstellar matter cycle.
Since only fairly recently, a sufficient amount of computing power
has become available to tackle these problems with some prospect of
obtaining a self-consistent picture of the ISM, a major goal of
this workshop was to bring together observers and theoreticians
sufficiently close, so that intense discussions about the
necessities and desiderata of modelling the ISM could be
stimulated. Observers have shown in great detail on this conference
of what is seen on all scales of the ISM, near and far, and what
boundary conditions would be appropriate for realistic models, and
theoreticians pointed out what assumptions and simplifications
their codes need, and how future observations could test their
models. As a first step towards this goal, some self-consistent
numerical simulations with a minimum number of relevant physical
processes were also presented on this meeting. There was wide
agreement, that this approach - to keep observers and theoreticians
in close contact and also in sometimes quite controversial
discussions - will bear fruitful results in the near future.
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