Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium
Sun Kwok
This book is a graduate-level text covering the fundamental physics and chemistry required for a modern understanding of the interstellar medium. Radiation mechanisms are comprehensively presented, and extensive examples are drawn from observations in the X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, mm/sub mm, and radio observations. This book goes beyond a phenomenological study of the interstellar medium to give a detailed quantitative treatment of the radiative and dynamical interactions between stars and the interstellar medium. With an emphasis on a physical understanding of these processes, the mathematical derivations are clean, elegant and easily understandable by anyone with an undergraduate background in physics.
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Jahr:
2007
Verlag:
University Science Books
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
569
ISBN 10:
1891389467
ISBN 13:
9781891389467
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english, 2007