ISO Science Legacy A Compact Review of ISO Major Achievements /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cesarsky, Catherine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Salama, Alberto (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Θέματα: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Atoms.; Atomic structure.; Molecular structure.; Spectra.; Physical measurements.; Measurement.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra.

Stars are born and die in clouds of gas and dust, opaque to most types of radiation, but transparent in the infrared. Requiring complex detectors, space missions and cooled telescopes, infrared astronomy is the last branch of this discipline to come of age. After a very successful sky survey perform...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• General
• Crystalline Silicates
• Water in Space: The Water World of ISO
• Molecular Hydrogen
• Understanding Galaxy Formation with ISO Deep Surveys
• Solar System
• The Planets and Titan Observed by ISO
• Comets, Asteroids and Zodiacal Light as Seen by Iso
• Stars and Circumstellar Matter
• ISO Observations of Pre-Stellar Cores and Young Stellar Objects
• Pre-Main Sequence Stars Seen by ISO
• Debris Discs Around Stars: The 2004 ISO Legacy
• Late Stages of Stellar Evolution
• Interstellar Medium
• The Cool Interstellar Medium
• High Excitation ISM and Gas
• The Ice Survey Opportunity of ISO
• Our Local Universe . . .
• Normal Nearby Galaxies
• Obscured Activity: AGN, Quasars, Starbursts and ULIGs Observed by the Infrared Space Observatory
• . . . And Beyond
• The European Large Area ISO Survey
• ISO’s Contribution to the Study of Clusters of Galaxies.