Atomic and molecular data for space astronomy
Subtitle: needs, analysis, and availability : a selection of papers presented at the joint commission meeting III of the 21st I.A.U. General Assembly, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 July-1 August 1991
By: Peter L. Smith, Wolfgang L. Wiese, eds.
Contributors: Smith, Peter L.; Wiese, W. L.
Series: Lecture notes in physics ;; 407
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Space astronomy -- Congresses.; Astrophysics -- Congresses.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.