Interstellar Medium

Graduate Institute of Astronomy

 

Wen Ping Chen (S4-906; ext. 65960)

Syllabus

 

Class Slides: 

 

01.  Overview

02.  Observations Hydrogen

03.  Collisions

04.  Excitation Einstein Coefficients

05.  Radiative Transfer

06.Chemical Abundances

07.Photoionization, H II regions, Stromgren Sphere

08.Thermal Emission; Plasma Frequency

09.Extinction

 

08.Line Profiles

09.Hydrogen 21 cm line, Galactic Rotation

09.Zeeman Effect, Polarization of Starlight, Faraday Rotation

10.Extinction

11.Grains and Molecules

12.Heating and Cooling

13.Star Formation

 

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