This book provides an introduction to the theory of atomic and molecular collision processes which occur in the interstellar medium. It is directed towards graduate students and research workers in the fields of astrophysics and astrochemistry who wish to analyse and interpret observations of the interstellar gas. The book will also be of interest to physical chemists who seek a better appreciation of their discipline to an important and expanding area of astronomy. The text deals primarily with processes occuring in interstellar molecular clouds, where the electron density is low and collisions with the abundant neutral species, H, H2, and He, predominate. As the energies involved are very small, the theory is necessarily based on the quantum mechanical method with simpler, classical models being used to interpret the results wherever possible. The compilation of sources of data pertaining to the rotational excitation of interstellar molecules will be helpful to radioastronomers interpreting mm-wave observations of molecular clouds.
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Here is an introduction to the theory of atomic and molecular collision processes which occur in the interstellar medium. The text deals primarily with processes that occur in interstellar molecular clouds, where the electron density is low and collisions with the abundant neutral species H, H2 and He predominate.
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David Flower is a Professor of Physics at the University of Durham, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and an Editor of the Society's astronomy research journal, Monthly Notices. His research interests include atomic and molecular physics in astrophysical environments, and the physics of the interstellar medium.
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Molecules are extensively observed in our own and other galaxies, in objects such as planetary and cool stellar atmospheres and the interstellar medium. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
adiabatic potential energy curves, rovibrational excitation, fine structure excitation, fine structure transitions, rotational excitation, neutral fluid, projection quantum number, preferential excitation, collisional excitation, electron gas model, acceleration zone, sudden approximation, maser action, internuclear axis, vibrational relaxation, ambipolar diffusion, centrifugal potential, avoided crossing, interstellar molecules, interstellar clouds, rotational transitions, ambient medium, molecular clouds, interstellar medium, diffuse clouds New!
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adiabatic potential energy curves, rovibrational excitation, fine structure excitation, fine structure transitions, rotational excitation, neutral fluid, projection quantum number, preferential excitation, collisional excitation, electron gas model, acceleration zone, sudden approximation, maser action, internuclear axis, vibrational relaxation, ambipolar diffusion, centrifugal potential, avoided crossing, interstellar molecules, interstellar clouds, rotational transitions, ambient medium, molecular clouds, interstellar medium, diffuse clouds New!
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- Modern Physics in Back Matter
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- The Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium by A. G. G. M. Tielens on page 62
- Stellar Rotation (Cambridge Astrophysics) by Jean-Louis Tassoul in Front Matter
- Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy (Cambridge Astrophysics) by Martin A. Barstow in Front Matter
- RR Lyrae Stars (Cambridge Astrophysics) by Horace A. Smith in Front Matter
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