Atomic and Molecular Data for Space Astronomy: Needs, Analysis, and Availability : Joint Commission Meeting III : 21st General Assembly : Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Physics)

Author: Smith, Peter L

Brand: Springer

Binding: hardcover

Format: Import

Number Of Pages: 167

Release Date: 05-11-1992

Details: This is a very useful reference book for working astronomers and astrophysicists. Forming the proceedings of a recent IAU meeting where the availability and the needs of atomic and molecular data were discussed, the papers published here discuss existing and planned instruments for astronomical spectroscopy from earth-orbiting satellites. In particular, the atomic and molecular parameters that are, or will be, needed for analysis of the data obtained by these instruments are considered. A number of significant shortcomings in the available databases are identified. The needs highlighted will be of interest to laboratory astrophysicists, both experimentalists and theorists, who canproduce the data required. A second group of papers provides a current inventory of atomic and molecular data compilations.

EAN: 9780387979090

Languages: English