Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium
Cambridge University Press, 3/25/2021
EAN 9781108748773, ISBN10: 1108748775
Paperback, 260 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This concise textbook, the first volume in the Ohio State Astrophysics Series, covers all aspects of the interstellar and intergalactic medium for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. This series aims to impart the essential knowledge on a topic that every astrophysics graduate student should know, without going into encyclopedic depth. This text includes a full discussion of the circumgalactic medium, which bridges the space between the interstellar and intergalactic gas, and the hot intracluster gas that fills clusters of galaxies. Its breadth of coverage is innovative, as most current textbooks treat the interstellar medium in isolation. The authors emphasise an order-of-magnitude understanding of the physical processes that heat and cool the low-density gas in the universe, as well as the processes of ionization, recombination, and molecule formation. Problems at the end of each chapter are supplemented by online projects, data sets and other resources.
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Cold Neutral Medium
3. Warm Neutral Medium
4. Warm Ionized Medium and Ionized Nebulae
5. Hot Ionized Medium
6. Interstellar Dust
7. Molecular Clouds
8. Circumgalactic and Intracluster Gas
9. Diffuse Intergalactic Medium
10. Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium
Bibliography and Figure Credits
Index.