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Author:   F.J. Kerr ,  S.C. Simonson III
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974
Volume:   60
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   1.230kg
ISBN:  

9789027705020

ISBN 10:   902770502
Pages:   667
Publication Date:   31 December 1974
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface.- List of Participants.- 1 / The Interstellar Medium.- The Observational Evidence for an Intercloud Medium (Review).- A Modern Look at ‘Interstellar Clouds’ (Review).- Properties of Neutral Hydrogen Clouds.- Free Electrons Outside H ii Regions (Review).- Line Absorption Studies of the Interstellar Gas Near 1015 Hz (Review).- On Microwave Recombination Lines from H i Regions (Abstract).- Two New Recombination-Line Results.- The Galactic Electron Distribution from a Pulsar Survey.- Heating and Ionization of the Interstellar Medium (Review).- Theoretical Calculations of Interstellar Cloud Formation.- Expanding Shells of Neutral Hydrogen as Birthplaces of Stellar Associations.- Interstellar Molecules - Theory (Review).- Extended OH Emission at 1720 MHz (Summary).- The Observed Characteristics of the Local Magnetic Field (Review).- A High-Resolution Polarization Survey of the North Polar Spur.- The Chemical Composition and Distribution of Interstellar Grains (Review).- The Gas-to-Dust Ratio in the Galaxy.- Absorption Characteristics of Dust in the Lyman Continuum Region (Abstract).- Spectrum of Galactic Background Radiation (Summary).- Galactic Background Radiation at 2 cm and Thermal Electrons in the Galaxy.- Thermal and Maser Phenomena in Rotationally Excited OH (Abstract).- 2 / Galactic H ii Regions.- Recent Radio Observations of Galactic H ii Regions (Review).- High-Resolution Radio Observations of a Giant H ii Region in Cygnus.- Radio Observations of H ii Regions in M33 (Read by H. J. Habing).- The H ii Regions of M31.- The Brightness Distribution of Ori A at 4.1 mm in the 101–000 Line of Para-Formaldehyde and in the Continuum.- Large-Scale Expansion in the Carina Nebula (Abstract).- Decimeter-Wavelength Studies of Recombination Lines.- OpticalObservations of Ionized Gas in External Galaxies (Review).- Distribution of Dust in the Orion Nebula (Abstract).- Infrared Emission from H ii Regions (Review).- Maser Sources in H ii Regions (Review).- Magnetic Fields in OH Maser Clouds.- On the First Southern-Sky H2O Masers Observed at Itapetinga, Brazil.- Time Scales and Masses of OH-Emission Regions (Summary).- OH Observations Near the Reflection Nebulae NGC 2068 and NGC 2071.- H ii Regions: Some Theoretical Developments (Review).- 3 / Supernova Remnants.- Observational Aspects of Supernova Remnants (Review).- Supernova Remnants: Can a Fossil H ii Region Be Formed as the Result of a Supernova Explosion?.- Polarization Observations of Supernova Remnants.- High-Resolution Observations of Galactic Nonthermal Sources at 160 MHz.- A 160-MHz Map of Cas A.- Westerbork Observations of the Galactic Supernova Remnants IC 443 and Tycho (Read by H. J. Habing).- 21-cm Absorption Study of Extended Supernova Remnants.- The Birthplaces of Pulsars.- New Results on Supernova Remnants (Summary; read by Yu. Parijskij).- 4 / Stellar and Circumstellar Sources.- Radio Continuum Observations of Stellar Sources (Summary) (Review).- Stellar X-Ray Sources (Review).- Radio Outbursts from Cygnus X-3.- Infrared and X-Ray Variability of Cyg X-3.- Measurements on Planetary Nebulae.- Fine Structure in Planetary Nebulae.- Radio Observations of IR/OH/H2O Stars (Review).- The Infrared Properties of Circumstellar OH/IR and H2O/IR Sources (Review).- Some High-Velocity Sources of 1612 MHz OH Emission.- 5 / The Galactic Center.- Infrared Radiation from the Galactic Center (Review).- Radio Continuum and Recombination Line Studies of the Galactic Center (Review).- The Galactic Center at 408 MHz.- Occultation Observations of the Galactic Center Region at 327MHz.- 21-cm Line Studies of the Galactic Center Region (Review).- Kinematics of Molecules at the Galactic Centre (Review).- Observations of the J = 6 to 5 Line of OCS in Sgr B2.- The Galactic Centre (Review: Summary and Concluding Remarks).- 6 / Large-Scale Galactic Structure.- Current Problems in 21 cm Line Studies of the Large-Scale Structure of the Galaxy (Review).- Some Aspects of Galactic Structure Derived from the Berkeley Low Latitude Survey of Neutral Hydrogen (Invited Paper).- Progress Report on the Maryland-Green Bank Galactic 21-cm Line Survey.- A Simple Interpretation of the ‘Rolling Motions’.- High Velocity Neutral Hydrogen Clouds (Review).- The Magellanic Stream.- The Large-Scale Structure of Local H i, Dust, and Galactic Radio Continuum (Invited Paper).- Low- and Intermediate-Velocity Hydrogen at Positive Galactic Latitudes.- Continuum Radio Emission and Galactic Structure (Review).- The Bonn 408 MHz Survey.- Author Index.

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