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The Interstellar Medium in Galaxies is a collection of seven reviews covering the following constituents of the interstellar medium: dust, molecular gas, neutral atomic hydrogen, ionized hydrogen, and hot gas, and covering the abundances of heavy elements in the interstellar medium and the role of s...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hulst, J. M. van der
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1997]
Series:Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 219.
Subjects:
Galaxies.
Interstellar matter.
Disks (Astrophysics)
Astrophysics.
Interstellaire materie.
Matière interstellaire.
Disque.
Interstellare Materie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Dust in the Disks of Galaxies
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Dust models and their consequences
  • 3 Heating sources and phases of the dust
  • 4 The fate of dust in the ISM, and future instruments
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 2 Molecular Gas in Galaxy Disks
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 How well can we measure the mass of molecular gas?
  • 3 H2 vs. HI
  • 4 Spiral structure in the outer disks
  • 5 The central few kiloparsecs
  • 6 Circumnuclear regions
  • 7 Vertical distribution of molecular gas
  • 8 Gas disks around active galactic nuclei
  • 3 Cool HI Disks in Galaxies
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Neutral Hydrogen Content and Global Properties
  • 3 Distribution of HI in Disks
  • 4 HI as a Tracer of the Mass Distribution
  • 5 Relationship of ?HI to Star Formation
  • 6 Environmental Effects
  • 7 Future prospects
  • 4 The Warm Ionized Medium and the Disk-Halo Connection in Galaxies
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The WIM of the Milky Way
  • 3 New Theoretical Developments on the Origin and Maintenance of WIMs
  • 4 Observations of Diffuse Ionized Gas in External Galaxies
  • 5 Conclusions
  • 5 Hot Gas and X-Rays
  • 1 Is there Hot Gas in Normal Galaxies?
  • 2 Hot Gas in Late Type Galaxies
  • 3 Hot Gas in Early Type Galaxies
  • 6 Abundance Gradients in Spiral Galaxies
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Background Information
  • 3 Results
  • 4 Conclusions
  • 7 From Gas to Stars: Regulation of Star Formation
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Schmidt law
  • 3 Star formation thresholds
  • 4 Regulation of the SFR
  • 8 Subject Index
  • 9 Object Index
  • 10 List of Symbols.