Author : Stephan Schlemmer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 3527408894
Written by leading scientists in the field and intended for a broader readership, this is an ideal starting point for an overview of current research and developments. As such, the book covers a broad spectrum of laboratory astrophysics and chemistry, describing recent advances in experiments, as well as theoretical work, including fundamental physics and modeling chemical networks. For researchers as well as students and newcomers to the field.
Author : Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 331990020X
This book focuses on the most recent, relevant, comprehensive and significant aspects in the well-established multidisciplinary field Laboratory Astrophysics. It focuses on astrophysical environments, which include asteroids, comets, the interstellar medium, and circumstellar and circumplanetary regions. Its scope lies between physics and chemistry, since it explores physical properties of the gas, ice, and dust present in those systems, as well as chemical reactions occurring in the gas phase, the bare dust surface, or in the ice bulk and its surface. Each chapter provides the necessary mathematical background to understand the subject, followed by a case study of the corresponding system. The book provides adequate material to help interpret the observations, or the computer models of astrophysical environments. It introduces and describes the use of spectroscopic tools for laboratory astrophysics. This book is mainly addressed to PhD graduates working in this field or observers and modelers searching for information on ice and dust processes.
Author : Olivia Harper Wilkins
Publisher : American Chemical Society
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0841299129
The answers to some of the most fundamental questions in science lie between the stars, in molecular clouds that serve as celestial laboratories. Disentangling the chemistries in extraterrestrial environments can provide clues about how planets form and shed light on problems in terrestrial chemistry that are difficult to investigate in the lab, and even the origins of life. Astrochemistry takes you on a tour of the molecular universe through time and space, starting with the emergence of matter about 13.8 billion years ago. From there, the tour visits the interstellar medium, with an emphasis on molecular clouds where stars are born. It then goes through different evolutionary stages of stars and planets – and the chemistry that emerges alongside them – before ending in our own solar system, where you will learn about chemical delivery by objects such as comets and meteorites.
Author : Ashraf - Ali
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 2832500730
Author : P. Ehrenfreund
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401147280
The book presents the most recent developments of laboratory studies in astrophysics and space research. The individual chapters review laboratory investigations under simulated space conditions, studies for the design of successful space experiments or for supporting the interpretation of astronomical and space mission recorded data. Related theoretical models, numerical simulations and in situ observations demonstrate the necessity of experimental work on the Earth's surface. The expertise of the contributing scientists covers a broad spectrum and is included in general overviews from fundamental science to recent space technology. The book intends to serve as a reference for researchers and graduate students on the most recent activities and results in laboratory astrophysics, and to give reviews of their applications in astronomy, planetology, cosmochemistry, space research and Solar System exploration.
Author : Vito Mennella
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 3031290038
This volume contains the proceedings of a conference on laboratory astrophysics, which gathered a broad interdisciplinary community of astrophysicists, physicists, chemists, and geophysicists. It provides an update on outstanding results in this research field, the presentation of new laboratory developments, and the recent and expected to come space missions and other astronomical observatories with their specific needs for laboratory and theoretical studies.Understanding the interplay between dust, ice, and gas during the star lifecycle as well as in planet forming regions and the Solar System is a vast topic in relation with space exploration and astronomical observations. It also strongly relies on laboratory astrophysics activities and chemical modelling in order to simulate the formation and evolution of matter in space. This book provides researchers and graduate students with a valuable account of the current state of this fascinating discipline.
Author : Jean Louis Lemaire
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Interstellar molecules
ISBN : 9782901057581
Author : T.J. Millar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400930070
''An atteJDpt has been made to cOll1PlJte the numbers of certain JI10lecules in interstellar space , . . . . A search for the bands of CH, O/{, DR, en and C2 would appear to be proIDising" P Swings and L Rosenfeld Astrophysical Journal 86,483(1937) This may have been the first attempt at modelling interstellar chemistry. As with models today, the methods used lacked reliability, but the speculation was impressive! Mark Twain might well have said of this infant subject "One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact". The detection of unidentified lines around the period that Swings and Rosenfeld were writing provoked much interest, but even the most optimistic speculator could hardly have imagined developments which would occur during the next 50 years. By 1987 about 70 varieties of molecule had been identified in the interstellar and circumstellar regions, They range in complexity from simple diatomics such as H2 and CO to such species as ethanol C2HeDH, acetone (CHs)2CO, and the largest interstellar molecule detected so far, cyano-penta acetylene HC11N, The study of these molecules in astronomy has developed enormously, especially over the last 20 years, and is now codified in the new subject of astrochemistry, That such a variety of chemical species should exist in tenuous regions of the Galaxy is fascinating.
Author : David A Williams
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1788019253
Without interstellar dust, the Universe as we see it today would not exist. Yet at first we considered this vital ingredient merely an irritating fog that prevented a clear view of the stars and nebulae in the Milky Way and other galaxies. We now know that interstellar dust has essential roles in the physics and chemistry of the formation of stars and planetary systems, the creation of the building blocks of life, and in the movement of those molecules to new planets. This is the story in this book. After introducing the materials this interstellar dust is made of, the authors explain the range of sizes and shapes of the dust grains in the Milky Way galaxy and the life cycle of dust, starting from the origins of dust grains in stellar explosions through to their turbulent destruction. Later on we see the variety of processes in interstellar space involving dust and the events there that cause the dust to change in ways that astronomers and astrobiologists can use to indirectly observe those events. This book is written for a general audience, concentrating on ideas rather than detailed mathematics and chemical formulae, and is the first time interstellar dust has been discussed at an accessible level.
Author : Ralf I. Kaiser
Publisher : American Institute of Physics
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2006-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN :
The physical and chemical processes leading to the formation of molecules in the interstellar medium, as well as in solar system planetary and satellite atmospheres, has fascinated scientists for many years. This conference set out to shed light on the basic question "How are these molecules actually formed in these extraterrestrial environments?" Topics included are: Gas phase laboratory experiments; solid state laboratory experiments; observations and spectroscopy, as well as modeling and theory.
