This book is a graduate-level text covering the fundamental physics and chemistry required for a modern understanding of the interstellar medium. Radiation mechanisms are comprehensively presented, and extensive examples are drawn from observations in the X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, mm/sub mm, and radio observations. This book goes beyond a phenomenological study of the interstellar medium to give a detailed quantitative treatment of the radiative and dynamical interactions between stars and the interstellar medium. With an emphasis on a physical understanding of these processes, the mathematical derivations are clean, elegant and easily understandable by anyone with an undergraduate background in physics.

About the Author
SUN KWOK is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and Faculty Professor of the University of Calgary, Canada. He has published over 200 scientific papers in the fields of interstellar medium and stellar evolution. He is best known for his theory on the origin of planetary nebulae and for the study of organic compounds in the circumstellar environment.


Book Information
ISBN 9781891389467
Author Sun Kwok
Format Hardback
Page Count 600
Imprint University Science Books,U.S.
Publisher University Science Books,U.S.
Weight(grams) 3000g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 197mm * 32mm