Course 7: Dust in the Interstellar Medium
Abstract
Contents 1 Introduction 2 The phases of the interstellar medium 3 Abundances 4 Extinction curve 5 Infrared emission from dust 5.1 Spectral energy distribution 5.2 Grain temperatures and infrared emission 6 Dust composition as a function of size 6.1 Interstellar PAHs 6.2 Very small grains 6.3 Large grains 7 Dust processing in the interstellar medium 7.1 Grain sputtering and shattering in shock waves 7.2 Grain growth in molecular clouds 8 Dense media around protostars 8.1 Absorption spectroscopy of embedded sources 8.2 Dust around young stars 9 Dust formation 9.1 AGB stars 9.2 Physical processes 9.3 Infrared spectroscopy of AGB and post-AGB stars 9.4 Dust in SNR and hot stars 10 The life cycle of dust 10.1 Sources of dust 10.2 Dust processing in the interstellar medium 10.3 The crystalline-amorphous-crystalline silicate transition 10.4 Interstellar dust in the solar system 11 Summary and perspectives
- Publication:
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Infrared Space Astronomy, Today and Tomorrow
- Pub Date:
- 2000
- Bibcode:
- 2000isat.conf..251B