Muñoz Caro G.M, Escribano R. (Eds.) Laboratory Astrophysics

Springer, 2018. — 237 p. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Library 451). — ISBN: 3319900196.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.Dust and Ice in the Interstellar Medium
Icy Grains in the Solar System: Cometary and Asteroidal Environments
Introduction to Spectroscopy and Astronomical Observations
Density of Ices of Astrophysical Interest
Infrared Optical Constants and Band Strengths of Ices
Quantum Chemical Description of Solids: DFT Approach
Monte Carlo Simulations of the Formation and Morphology of Interstellar Ices
Infrared Spectroscopy and Programmed Thermal Desorption of Ice Mixtures
Photon-Induced Desorption Processes in Astrophysical Ices
Thermal Reactivity Dynamics in Interstellar Ice
Spectroscopy of Interstellar Carbonaceous Dust
Light Scattered by Cosmic Dust at Visible Wavelengths
Infrared Spectroscopy of Ions of Astrophysical Interest
Interstellar Chemical Models