Structure and Dynamics of the Interstellar Medium Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 120 Held on the Occasion of Guido's Jubilee in Granada, Spain, April 17-21, 1989

Here for the first time is a book that treats practically all aspects of modern research in interstellar matter astrophysics. 20 review articles and 40 carefully selected and refereed papers give a thorough overview of the field and convey the flavor of enthusiastic colloquium discussions to the rea...

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Other Authors: Tenorio-Tagle, Guillermo (Editor), Moles, Mariano (Editor), Melnick, Jorge (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Series:Lecture Notes in Physics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chemistry of molecular clouds
  • CO distributions towards the southern dark cloud of DC 303.6+0.9
  • Extensive molecular line survey for dark clouds
  • Molecular hydrogen emission from photodissociation regions
  • Cosmic ray induced photodestruction of interstellar molecules
  • The nature of shocks in molecular clouds
  • Fragmentation and the initial mass function
  • Star formation
  • Turbulence in interstellar clouds
  • Turbulent and ordered motions in HII regions
  • Expansion of HII regions in density gradients
  • Variable HII regions
  • The sharpless 187 gas complex: A study of the molecular, atomic, ionized and dust components
  • Turbulent mixing in wind-blown HII regions
  • Accretion flows in high-mass star formation
  • An optical study of the star formation region NGC 7129
  • Star formation in the NGC 2071 molecular cloud
  • A theory on the slope of the IMF
  • S266: A distant HII region in the Galaxy
  • Silicon bearing molecules in molecular clouds
  • Inverting the position-velocity diagrams of molecular discs
  • Identification of outflow exciting sources through ammonia observations
  • The molecular envolope of mira
  • Narrowband photometry of photometrically peculiar objects
  • The structure of molecular clouds from large scale surveys of CO and CS
  • The radio continuum morphology of the Orion Nebula
  • Highly excited molecular hydrogen in orion
  • Aperture synthesis observations of NH3 and CS in Orion-KL
  • The trapezium radio cluster of the Orion Nebula
  • Turbulence in the Orion Nebula
  • High-resolution molecular line observations of the core and outflow in orion B
  • Star formation in galactic nuclei
  • Ionized gas and stellar content in a sample of HII galaxies
  • The shaping of theoptical jet of the galaxy NGC 4258
  • A plasmon driven bowshock model for the narrow line region of NGC5929
  • Age effects in Giant Extragalactic HII Regions
  • Evolution of clumpy gas in galaxies
  • The mass spectrum of interstellar clouds
  • Deterministic self-propagating star formation
  • The violent interstellar medium in messier 31
  • Contributions of supernovae to the chemical and dynamical evolution of the ism
  • 1/4 Ke V diffuse background and the local interstellar medium
  • Large-scale irregularities in the interstellar medium
  • The milky way disk warp
  • Dense clumps in NGC 2024 — Protostellar condensations?
  • Radio maps of the regions RCW 57 and W 49
  • Ionization of the galactic center arched filaments
  • The chamaeleon dark clouds complex: Preliminary analysis of the colour excesses E(b-y) towards the selected Area 203
  • Interstellar wind-blown bubbles
  • Stellar winds in a-type supergiants
  • Supernova remnants
  • Dust condensation in the ejecta of SN 1987A
  • Observations of the progenitor wind of SN 1987A
  • The dynamical evolution of a clumpy medium
  • Infrared environment of the be star 6 cephei: Interaction of stellar and interstellar winds
  • Carbon monoxide emission from young planetary nebulae
  • Interaction between a stellar wind and the ionized gas in N120 (LMC)
  • Disks and outflows
  • The structure of dense cloud cores
  • Molecular disks around young stars
  • On the nature of thebeta pictoris circumstellar nebula
  • Near-infrared images of the serpens molecular cloud core
  • Molecular outflows
  • H?-emission in directions toward high velocity 21cm clouds
  • High-velocity absorption components toward the LMC
  • Distance and chemical composition of high-velocity clouds
  • Inflow of neutral gas toward the galactic disk
  • Ultraviolet observations of halo clouds
  • Analysis of low- and high-resolution observations of high-velocity clouds
  • Molecules at the interface of an HVC and a high-z HI filament
  • Observations of the galactic halo
  • A new high-resolution optical study of halo gas
  • Galactic winds
  • Cycling of dust grains through the galactic halo
  • The intermediate velocity cloud IVC86+38.5-45, related to high velocity clouds?
  • The NaI interstellar spectrum of HVC 287.5+225+240
  • Collisions between high latitude clouds: Theory meets observations
  • Multiple-supernova remnants
  • Galactic fountains
  • Clustered supernovae vs. the gaseous disk and halo A rematch
  • Gamma rays from violent interstellar events
  • Structure of the diffuse interstellar medium
  • Submillimetre mapping and photometry of bipolar flows — Evidence for compact disks
  • AFGL 2591 and monoceros R2: Cavities in the molecular cloud
  • Aperture synthesis observations of CS. NH3. and continuum in the bipolar flow source NGC2071-IRS
  • A swept-up molecular bubble in L1551
  • On the formation and propagation of interstellar jets
  • The collimation of nonadiabatic winds from young stars
  • Herbig-Haro objects
  • A CO search for molecular gas in high mass post-main-sequence nebulae
  • A remarkable bipolar flow in the center of the Rho ophiuchi cloud
  • Massive dust disks surrounding herbig Ae/Be stars
  • New young objects from the iras point source catalogue
  • IUE observations of herbig-haro objects 7, 11 & 29
  • H2 2.12 µm spectroscopy and imaging of HH objects
  • New OVRO results show disks are not necessary for focussing bipolar outflows
  • The spectrum of a partially ionized jet
  • Sodium ionization in T-tauri stars