Laboratory Astrophysics (eBook)

INTRODUCTION 1.      Dust and ice in the interstellar medium, Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro                                          2.      Icy grains in the Solar System: cometary and asteroidal environments,  Fernando Moreno                                                                                                       3.      Introduction to Spectroscopy, Rafael Escribano                                                                           ICE PROPERTIES 4.      Density of ices of astrophysical interest, Miguel Ángel Satorre, Ramón Luna,  Carlos Millán, Manuel Domingo, and Carmina Santonja                                                                            5.      Infrared optical constants and band strengths of ices, Belén Maté                                        6.      Quantum-chemical description of solids: DFT approach, Oscar Gálvez                                  7.      Monte Carlo simulations of porosity and accretion in ices, Stéphanie Cazaux, Jean Baptiste Bossa, Rafael Martin Doménech, Guillermo Muñoz Caro, Asper Chen, Harold Linnartz and Alexander Tielens            ICE PROCESSES 8.      Infrared spectroscopy and programmed thermal desorption of ice mixtures, Rafael Martín-Doménech and Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro                             9.      Photon-induced desorption processes in astrophysical ices, Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro and Rafael Martín-Doménech                             10.   Thermal reactivity in interstellar ice, Patrice Theulé, F. Duvernay, G. Danger, F. Borget, J.B. Bossa, J.A. Noble, N. Abou Mrad, V. Vinogradoff, F. Mispelaer, and T. Chiavassa                   DUST GRAINS AND PLASMAS 11.   Spectroscopy of interstellar carbonaceous dust, Víctor J. Herrero, Belén Maté, Germán Molpeceres,  Miguel Jiménez-Redondo, Isabel Tanarro and Rafael Escribano                                          12.   Light scattered by cosmic dust at visible wavelengths: The IAA Cosmic Dust Laboratory, Olga Muñoz, Fernando Moreno and Jesús Escobar-Cerezo                            13.   Spectroscopy of plasmas of astrophysical interest, Maite Cueto, José Luis Doménech, Víctor Herrero, Isabel Tanarro and José Cernicharo                                                                                    ASTROPHYSICAL MODELS 14. Interstellar Chemical Models, Marcelino Agúndez