Recent Advances in Spectroscopy

X-Ray Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Ions in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas.- X-ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical and Laboratory Z-pinch Plasmas.- Computational Interstellar Chemistry.- State specific calculation of dissociation potential energy curve using multireference perturbation theory.- C-H?O Hydrogen Bonded Complexes Between Chloroform and Cyclic Ketones: Correlation of Spectral Shifts and Complex Stability with Ring Size.- Infrared spectroscopic demonstration of cooperative and anti-cooperative effects in C-H--O hydrogen bonds.- The Single Surface Beyond Born-Oppenheimer Equation for the Excited States of Sodium Trimer.- Kubo Oscillator and its Application to Stochastic Resonance: A Microscopic Realization.- Spectra of Conjugated Polymer Aggregates.- Studies of parity and time reversal violations in heavy polar molecules.- Static hyper-polarizability of open shell molecules computed at the FSMRCCSD level using constrained variational approach.- Chemical shielding of closed-shell molecules using Extended Coupled-cluster theory.- Multi-Disciplinary Role of Atomic Astrophysics: From Stellar Interiors to Cancer Research Via Nanotechnology.- Recent Developments in Polarized Line Formation in Magnetic Fields.- Discrete Space Theory of Radiative Transfer: Application.- Solar Spectroscopy and (Pseudo-)Diagnostics of the Solar Chromosphere.- High-resolution spectroscopy of the R Coronae Borealis and Other Hydrogen Deficient Stars.- Simultaneous X-ray and Optical Observations of the T Tauri star TW Hya.- Element Abundance Determination in Hot Evolved Stars.- Elemental abundances in CEMP stars: r- and s-process elements.- Spectroscopic survey of emission line stars in open clusters.- An improved Technique to Explore Disk Accretion Process in PMS Stars.

From the reviews:

"The individual chapters are all well-written and understandable by a non-expert ... . each chapter devotes a reasonable space to introducing the relevant experimental techniques and theoretical tools used to analyse the measurements. This provides an overall context to the book, making it potentially useful to (non-astrophysical) researchers performing high-resolution spectroscopy. In summary, this volume provides a significant amount of information regarding current challenges and approaches towards understanding stellar dynamics and the chemical constitution of celestial objects through the use of spectroscopy." (Andrew Resnick, Contemporary Physics, January, 2012)