Structure and dynamics of the interstellar medium : proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 120, held on the occassion of Guido's jubilee in Granada, Spain, April 17-21, 1989 G. Tenorio-Tagle, M. Moles, J. Melnick (eds.). Structure and dynamics of the interstel

Here for the first time is a book that treats practically all aspects of modern research in interstellar matter astrophysics. 20 review articles and 40 carefully selected and refereed papers give a thorough overview of the field and convey the flavor of enthusiastic colloquium discussions to the reader. The book includes sections on: - Molecular clouds, star formation and HII regions - Mechanical energy sources - Discs, outflows, jets and HH objects - The Orion Nebula - The extragalactic interstellar medium - Interstellar matter at high galactic latitudes - The structure of the interstellar medium Chemistry of molecular clouds....Pages 3-12 CO distributions towards the southern dark cloud of DC 303.6+0.9....Pages 13-17 Extensive molecular line survey for dark clouds....Pages 18-23 Molecular hydrogen emission from photodissociation regions....Pages 24-31 Cosmic ray induced photodestruction of interstellar molecules....Pages 32-37 The nature of shocks in molecular clouds....Pages 38-43 Fragmentation and the initial mass function....Pages 44-54 Star formation....Pages 56-67 Turbulence in interstellar clouds....Pages 68-79 Turbulent and ordered motions in HII regions....Pages 80-95 Expansion of HII regions in density gradients....Pages 96-103 Variable HII regions....Pages 104-110 The sharpless 187 gas complex: A study of the molecular, atomic, ionized and dust components....Pages 111-116 Turbulent mixing in wind-blown HII regions....Pages 117-121 Accretion flows in high-mass star formation....Pages 122-127 An optical study of the star formation region NGC 7129....Pages 128-128 Star formation in the NGC 2071 molecular cloud....Pages 128-128 A theory on the slope of the IMF....Pages 129-129 S266: A distant HII region in the Galaxy....Pages 129-129 Silicon bearing molecules in molecular clouds....Pages 130-130 Dense clumps in NGC 2024 — Protostellar condensations?....Pages 131-131 Radio maps of the regions RCW 57 and W 49....Pages 131-131 Ionization of the galactic center arched filaments....Pages 132-133 The chamaeleon dark clouds complex: Preliminary analysis of the colour excesses E(b-y) towards the selected Area 203....Pages 133-133 Interstellar wind-blown bubbles....Pages 137-145 Stellar winds in a-type supergiants....Pages 146-151 Supernova remnants....Pages 152-163 Dust condensation in the ejecta of SN 1987A....Pages 164-179 Observations of the progenitor wind of SN 1987A....Pages 180-185 The dynamical evolution of a clumpy medium....Pages 186-191 Infrared environment of the be star 6 cephei: Interaction of stellar and interstellar winds....Pages 192-192 Carbon monoxide emission from young planetary nebulae....Pages 193-193 Interaction between a stellar wind and the ionized gas in N120 (LMC)....Pages 194-194 Disks and outflows....Pages 197-209 The structure of dense cloud cores....Pages 210-214 Molecular disks around young stars....Pages 215-220 On the nature of the beta pictoris circumstellar nebula....Pages 221-226 Near-infrared images of the serpens molecular cloud core....Pages 227-230 Molecular outflows....Pages 231-243 Submillimetre mapping and photometry of bipolar flows — Evidence for compact disks....Pages 244-249 AFGL 2591 and monoceros R2: Cavities in the molecular cloud....Pages 250-253 Aperture synthesis observations of CS. NH 3 . and continuum in the bipolar flow source NGC2071-IRS....Pages 254-259 A swept-up molecular bubble in L1551....Pages 260-263 On the formation and propagation of interstellar jets....Pages 264-275 The collimation of nonadiabatic winds from young stars....Pages 276-281 Herbig-Haro objects....Pages 282-294 A CO search for molecular gas in high mass post-main-sequence nebulae....Pages 295-299 A remarkable bipolar flow in the center of the Rho ophiuchi cloud....Pages 300-300 Massive dust disks surrounding herbig Ae/Be stars....Pages 301-301 New young objects from the iras point source catalogue....Pages 301-301 IUE observations of herbig-haro objects 7, 11 & 29....Pages 302-302 H 2 2.12 μm spectroscopy and imaging of HH objects....Pages 302-302 New OVRO results show disks are not necessary for focussing bipolar outflows....Pages 303-303 The spectrum of a partially ionized jet....Pages 304-304 Sodium ionization in T-tauri stars....Pages 304-304 Inverting the position-velocity diagrams of molecular discs....Pages 305-305 Identification of outflow exciting sources through ammonia observations....Pages 305-305 The molecular envolope of mira....Pages 306-306 Narrowband photometry of photometrically peculiar objects....Pages 306-306 The structure of molecular clouds from large scale surveys of CO and CS....Pages 309-314 The radio continuum morphology of the Orion Nebula....Pages 315-322 Highly excited molecular hydrogen in orion....Pages 323-326 Aperture synthesis observations of NH 3 and CS in Orion-KL....Pages 327-332 The trapezium radio cluster of the Orion Nebula....Pages 333-338 Turbulence in the Orion Nebula....Pages 339-339 High-resolution molecular line observations of the core and outflow in orion B....Pages 339-339 Star formation in galactic nuclei....Pages 343-352 Ionized gas and stellar content in a sample of HII galaxies....Pages 353-358 The shaping of the optical jet of the galaxy NGC 4258....Pages 359-363 A plasmon driven bowshock model for the narrow line region of NGC5929....Pages 364-368 Age effects in Giant Extragalactic HII Regions....Pages 369-369 Evolution of clumpy gas in galaxies....Pages 369-369 H α -emission in directions toward high velocity 21cm clouds....Pages 373-382 High-velocity absorption components toward the LMC....Pages 383-388 Distance and chemical composition of high-velocity clouds....Pages 389-395 Inflow of neutral gas toward the galactic disk....Pages 396-407 Ultraviolet observations of halo clouds....Pages 408-415 Analysis of low- and high-resolution observations of high-velocity clouds....Pages 416-423 Molecules at the interface of an HVC and a high-z HI filament....Pages 424-431 Observations of the galactic halo....Pages 432-441 A new high-resolution optical study of halo gas....Pages 442-447 Galactic winds....Pages 448-453 Cycling of dust grains through the galactic halo....Pages 454-457 The intermediate velocity cloud IVC86+38.5-45, related to high velocity clouds?....Pages 458-458 The NaI interstellar spectrum of HVC 287.5+225+240....Pages 459-459 Collisions between high latitude clouds: Theory meets observations....Pages 460-460 Multiple-supernova remnants....Pages 463-473 Galactic fountains....Pages 474-483 Clustered supernovae vs. the gaseous disk and halo A rematch....Pages 484-493 Gamma rays from violent interstellar events....Pages 494-499 Structure of the diffuse interstellar medium....Pages 500-510 The mass spectrum of interstellar clouds....Pages 511-517 Deterministic self-propagating star formation....Pages 518-523 The violent interstellar medium in messier 31....Pages 524-529 Contributions of supernovae to the chemical and dynamical evolution of the ism....Pages 530-535 1/4 Ke V diffuse background and the local interstellar medium....Pages 536-536 Large-scale irregularities in the interstellar medium....Pages 537-537 The milky way disk warp....Pages 537-537