Title: Atomic and molecular data for space astronomy
First published: 1992
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.
Subjects: Congresses, Astrophysics, Space astronomy, Astronomy, Physics, Plasma (Ionized gases), Physical geography, Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Plasmas, Geophysics/Geodesy
LC classification: QB136 .I58 1991