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Author:   J.E. Dyson ,  D.A. Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Edition:   3rd edition
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9780367904234

ISBN 10:   0367904233
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   27 July 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents Preface to the Third Edition ............................................................................vii Some Relevant Physical and Astronomical Information...................................ix Authors.............................................................................................................xi Chapter 1 Introduction..................................................................................... 1 Chapter 2 How We Obtain Information about the Interstellar Medium........... 9 Chapter 3 Microscopic Processes in the Interstellar Medium ......................... 31 Chapter 4 Interstellar Grains.......................................................................... 51 Chapter 5 Radiatively Excited Regions........................................................... 79 Chapter 6 Introduction to Gas Dynamics .................................................... 103 Chapter 7 Gas Dynamical Effects of Stars on the Interstellar Medium........ 135 Chapter 8 Star Formation and Star-Forming Regions.................................. 169 Answers to Problems ...................................................................................... 187 Index.............................................................................................................. 191

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John Dyson made outstanding research contributions over many years to our understanding of the responses of interstellar media to winds from stars and from active galaxies. He had a huge influence on these subjects and his work gained an international reputation. Much of his career was at the University of Manchester where he became Professor of Astronomy and Head of Astrophysics. He moved in 1996 to the University of Leeds, becoming Dean of Research, and was appointed Emeritus Research Professor in 2006. He died in 2010 and is much missed by friends and colleagues world-wide who valued his scientific insight, quick wit, kindness and generosity. David Williams is currently Emeritus Perren Professor of Astronomy at University College London. While at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in the 1960s he became interested in interstellar molecules and interstellar dust as potential probes of the interstellar medium. When John Dyson and David were both working in Manchester, John emphasised the importance of cosmic gas dynamics in understanding interstellar chemistry and dust, and David built a research group at UMIST to investigate these and other topics. He left Manchester in 1994 for UCL and has continued to study problems in interstellar physics and chemistry.

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