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The Physics of Interstellar Dust <br />
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Interstellar dust clouds catalyze simple chemical reactions, absorb, scatter, <br />
polarize, and re-radiate starlight, and form the building blocks for planet and <br />
stellar formation. Understanding this interstellar medium is then of primary <br />
importance in many areas of astronomy & astrophysics. This book provides a <br />
theoretical description of the fundamental physics of interstellar material, <br />
including a description of its composition, morphology, grain size and <br />
distribution, dynamics, dielectric permeability, radiation scattering and <br />
spectral features. Other chapters describe the surface chemistry, and role of <br />
dust in stellar formation, including the spectral behavior of protostars and <br />
dust around early stars. <br />
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Table Of Contents<br />
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Preface <br />
1 The dielectric permeability 1<br />
2 How to evaluate grain cross sections 44<br />
3 Very small and very big particles 80<br />
4 Case studies of Mie calculus 119<br />
5 Particle statistics 145<br />
6 The radiative transition probability 175<br />
7 Structure and composition of dust 201<br />
8 Dust radiation 239<br />
9 Dust and its environment 275<br />
10 Polarization 319<br />
11 Grain alignment 347<br />
12 PAHs and spectral features of dust 377<br />
13 Radiative transport 396<br />
14 Diffuse matter in the Milky Way 425<br />
15 Stars and their formation 461<br />
16 Emission from young stars 505<br />
App. A: Mathematical formulae 539<br />
App. B: List of symbols 545<br />
References 549<br />
Index 552<br />
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* ISBN: 0750308613<br />
* ISBN-13: 9780750308618<br />
* Format: Hardcover, 336pp<br />
* Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.<br />
* Pub. Date: December 2002<br />
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