Meierhenrich, Uwe
Comets And Their Origin
The Tool To Decipher A Comet
2014
Print ISBN 978-3-527-41281-5
Foukal, Peter V.
Solar Astrophysics
2013
Print ISBN 978-3-527-41174-0
Kwok, Sun
Organic Matter in the Universe
2011
Print ISBN 978-3-527-40986-0
Rehder, D.
Chemistry in Space
From Interstellar Matter to the Origin of Life
2010
Print ISBN: 978-3-527-32689-1
Editors
Prof. Stephan Schlemmer
Universität zu Köln
I. Physikalisches Institut
Zülpicher Straße 77
50937 Köln
Germany
Dr. Harald Mutschke
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Astrophysikalisches Institut und Universitäts-Sternwarte
Schillergäßchen 2-3
D-07745 Jena
Germany
Prof. Thomas Giesen
Universität Kassel
Fachbereich 10 - Physik
Fachgruppe Laborastrophysik
Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40
34132 Kassel
Germany
Dr. Cornelia Jäger
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Laboratory Astrophysics Group
Helmholtzweg 3
D-07743 Jena
Germany
Cover Design
Infrared image of the NGC 7129 nebula obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Megeath). The cluster of young stars and associated nebula are located at a distance of 3300 light years in the constellation Cepheus. This image is a color composite of images at 3.6 (blue), 4.5 (green), and 8.0 micron (red). The yellow superposed spectrum is the 988 GHz line of water observed toward this source with the HIFI instrument onboard the Herschel Space Observatory (Johnstone et al. 2010, A&A 521, L41). The broad line wings are due to fast-moving hot water in outflows from the young star, whereas the narrow absorption feature indicates the presence of cold quiescent water associated with the protostellar envelope. Montage by L.Kristensen.
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List of Contributors
The field of laboratory astrophysics is well established and developing various branches of dedicated research in laboratories to provide astronomy with elementary data for the interpretation of their observations. Over the past 20 years, the branch that deals with molecular physics, chemical physics, and the physics and chemistry of dust particles became very active. As a result, laboratory astrochemistry is an important area of research around the globe. In view of today's needs to interpret the richness of observations in the era of the Herschel or ALMA obersvatories, much of the atomic and molecular data is stored in a growing number of databases like those for chemical reaction rates and those for molecular spectroscopy. In recent years, even a common framework for these databases has been developed in order to access many databases at the same time as this is needed for the interpretation of the vast information from the detailed astronomical observations.
A concerted development of laboratory astrochemistry became possible through continuous funding on national and international levels and through a strong exchange between the groups active in this field of research. Especially, the different European training networks and COST activities as well as the establishment of a Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) within the American Astronomical Society helped scientists to create awareness of this new and growing discipline and to attract students to work in this field. In the course of these developments, we felt that it could be helpful for new graduate students or fellow scientists to be introduced to the very different approaches of laboratory astrochemistry. The field is already too wide that one book could address all topics in great detail. Instead the idea of this book was to compile chapters on molecular spectroscopy, photodissociation, gas-phase processes, surfaces of grains, dust formation, and their spectroscopic properties.
In order to fit into one book, each chapter has an introductory section which is followed by a small set of contributions summarizing some recent advances. This attempt could by no means be comprehensive. Instead our intention is that reading the various chapters guides and encourages newcomers to then look up original work.
We would like to thank the chapter authors for their activities to bring together a number of coauthors contributing to the individual chapters. We are grateful to those authors for their participation and, in particular, for the patience to finish this work. Especially, we want to thank Malcom Walmsley for the introductory chapter to this book where he highlights the need of laboratory astrochemistry for the interpretation of astronomical observations. Several other people helped to prepare this work and we want to thank them and all coauthors for the patience and endurance to complete thiswork.
October 2014
Stephan Schlemmer, Thomas Giesen,
Harald Mutschke and Cornelia Jäger