{"product_id":"physics-and-chemistry-of-the-interstellar-medium-9781891389467","title":"Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Interstellar Medium  2 Fundamental Concepts of Radiation  3 Measurements of Radiation  4 Photoionization and Recombination  5 Line Radiation from Atoms and Ions  6 Continuum Radiation in the Gas Phase  7 Interstellar Molecules  8 Vibrational Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules  9 Molecular Excitation and Abundance Determination  10 Interstellar Grains: Physical Processes  11 The Chemical Composition of Interstellar and Circumstellar Grains  12 Carbonaceous Grains  13 The Origin of Interstellar Dust  14 Chemical Reactions in the ISM  15 Gas Dynamics, Gravitational Collapse, and Stellar Winds  16 Interaction between Stars and the Interstellar Medium  17 Beyond the Galaxy","brand":"University Science Books,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48888276386135,"sku":"9781891389467","price":75.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/physics-and-chemistry-of-the-interstellar-medium-9781891389467","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}