Interstellar Dust Proceedings of the 135th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Santa Clara, California, July 26–30, 1988
IAU Symposium 135 on Interstellar Dust was hosted and co-sponsored by NASA's Ames Research Center from July 26-30, 1988. The symposium was held at the lovely campus of Santa Clara University situated around the historic Santa Clara Mission in California. The meeting was made possible by generou...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
| Series: | International Astronomical Union Symposia
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Table of Contents:
- Section I: Dust in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium
- Measurements of Interstellar Extinction
- Insights on Dust Grain Formation and Destruction Provided by Gas-Phase Element Abundances
- Interstellar Extinction in External Galaxies
- Dust towards the Galactic Centre
- Linear and Circular Polarization in the Diffuse ISM
- Diffuse Interstellar Bands
- Visible/UV Scattering by Interstellar Dust
- Section II: The Overidentified Infrared Emission Features
- Infrared Emission from Reflection Nebulæ
- Observations of HII Regions and Planetary Nebulæ: the Infrared Emission Bands
- Aromatic Infrared Emission in Cirrus Clouds
- The Infrared Emission Features and PAHs
- The Infrared Emission Features and HAC Particles
- Optical Properties of Carbonaceous Materials
- Physical and Chemical Properties of PAHs
- The PAH Hypothesis and the Extinction Curve
- A Critical Assessment of the PAH Hypothesis
- Chemical, Optical and Infrared Properties of QCCs
- Grains, or Molecules? Thermal, or non-Thermal?
- Infrared Emission Mechanism in Large Isolated Molecules
- Panel Discussion on Treatments of Processes in PAH Molecules
- Ection III: Dust in Dense Clouds
- The Heating of Interstellar Gas by Dust
- Dust in Dense Clouds
- Dust and the Gas Phase Composition of Dense Clouds
- Polarized Infrared Emission from Dust
- Section IV: Dust in Galaxies
- Far Infrared Emission from Galactic and Extragalactic Dust
- Observations of Infrared Emission from Galaxies
- Section V: Optical Properties of Grains
- On the Interpretation of the ? 2175 Å Feature
- Pitfalls in Calculating Scattering by Small Particles
- Fractal Dust Grains
- Section VI: Interstellar Dust Models
- The Core-Mantle Model of Interstellar Grains and the Cosmic Dust Connection
- Bare Carbon/Silicate Theories
- Grains in DiffuseClouds: Carbon-Coated Silicate Cores
- Open Panel Discussion on Interstellar Grain Models
- Section VII: Interstellar Dust and the Solar System
- Interstellar Molecules in Meteorites
- Interstellar Grains in Meteorites: Diamond and Silicon Carbide
- Interstellar Dust in Collected Interplanetary Dust Particles
- Comet Dust: Connections with Interstellar Dust
- Section VIII: Bust Formation and Destruction
- Dust Destruction in the Interstellar Medium
- Sources of Stardust in the Galaxy
- The Composition of Dust in Stellar Ejecta
- Dust Condensation in Stellar Outflows
- Infrared Emission from Dust in Supernovae and Supernova Remnants
- Summary
- Critical Questions for the Future
- Contributed Papers
- Addresses of Participants
- Object Index
- Index of Molecules