- Overview of ISM: phases, properties of
gas and dust, distribution of ISM
- Ionized gas: Stromgren spheres,
partially ionized regions, recombination
lines, free-free radiation, bound-free radiation,
forbidden line emission, determining temperatures,
densities and abundances in HII regions, thermal
balance in HII regions, diffuse ionized gas, radio
propagation effects.
- Neutral gas: the 21-cm line: basic
radio astronomy, emission and absorption, rotation
curves kinematic distances,
temperatures, UV & visible interstellar
absorption lines, interstellar
abundances, diffuse interstellar bands,
heating, cooling, instabilities and phases of
ISM.
- Molecular gas: Interstellar chemistry,
mm-wave emission, cloud models, typical
properties of molecular clouds, interstellar
masers.
- Interstellar dust: extinction, reddening,
scattering, polarization, thermal equilibrium of
dust grains, VSGs and PAH emission, size and
nature of dust grains, origin and destruction
mechanisms.
- Non-thermal phenomena: Interstellar
magnetism, cosmic rays, synchrotron
emission, supernova remnants.
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- Shock Waves Sound speed, jump conditions,
ionization fronts, radiation from shocks, coronal
lines, X-ray emission, hot gas phase.
- Heating, cooling and phases of ISM
Cooling processes in molecular, atomic and
ionized gas, heating processes, pressure balance,
thermal instabilities, shock heated gas, models
for interstellar clouds, photo-dissociation
regions.
- Distribution of interstellar gas Scale
heights, galactic structure, high velocity clouds,
galactic center, local bubble, solar
vicinity.
- Gravity and Stability Jeans length,
fragmentation, Parker instability, stability of
molecular clouds, virial mass, spherical collapse,
rotation, formation of disks
- Star forming regions Molecular cores, low
mass star formation, bipolar flows, clustering,
high mass star formation, triggered star
formation.
- Origin and fate of interstellar matter
Mass loss stars, planetary nebulae,
Supernovae, evolution and balance of interstellar
medium
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