The local bubble and beyond : Lyman-Spitzer-Colloquium : proceedings of the IAU Colloquium no. 166, held in Garching, Germany, 21-25 April 1997

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the current observational and theoretical status in the field of the local and general interstellar medium. It contains contributions presented at the IAU Colloquium No. 166. Review articles and highlight talks will serve both as an introduction to the field for the undergraduate or the non-specialist and also give a summary of the most recent developments for the expert and researcher. These articles are supplemented by a representative number of original research papers. All contributions are fully refereed and have been edited with extensive care to provide a high-standard reference book. The scientific content spans a wide range from solar system measurements of dust grains to X-ray emission from distant galaxies. Lyman Spitzer 1914 – 1997....Pages 1-4 Introductory lecture: The local and general interstellar medium....Pages 5-16 Observations of the local interstellar cloud....Pages 17-28 The intrinsic properties of the local interstellar medium....Pages 29-32 A thermal pressure inside the local bubble, as revealed by CI fine-structure excitation....Pages 33-36 Ultra-high resolution Ca II observations of the LISM....Pages 37-40 EURD: An extreme ultraviolet spectrograph to probe the hot interstellar medium....Pages 41-44 New insights on the local ISM from EUV observations....Pages 45-56 Spectral observations of the diffuse FUV background with DUVE (the diffuse UV experiment)....Pages 57-60 The thermal pressure of the interstellar medium derived from cloud shadows in the extreme ultraviolet....Pages 61-64 The structure of the local hot bubble toward l = 165°, b = 0° using IUE and ROSAT data....Pages 65-68 The interstellar and circumstellar environment of white dwarfs....Pages 69-74 D/H-ratio: Observations with ORFEUS II....Pages 75-78 The diffuse extreme ultraviolet background....Pages 79-82 The soft X-ray background spectrum from DXS....Pages 83-90 GRADES: A new instrument for spectroscopy of the local hot gas....Pages 91-94 Planned observations of hot gas in the LISM....Pages 95-98 Interstellar C IV and Si IV in the direction of loop I....Pages 99-102 A new view of the LHB and 1/4 keV X-ray halo....Pages 103-112 On the zero-level of the soft X-ray background....Pages 113-116 ISOPHOT observations of a cold filament in the local hot bubble....Pages 117-120 Modeling the local bubble....Pages 121-131 Modeling the local bubble using multiple supernova remnants....Pages 133-136 Thin layer approximation in 3-D....Pages 137-140 Interaction of interstellar shocks with dense obstacles: Formation of “bullets”....Pages 141-144 Magnetorotational mechanism: 2D simulation....Pages 145-148 High-resolution optical observations of diffuse clouds....Pages 149-160 The line of sight of ε canis majoris: Depletion and extent of the local cloud....Pages 161-164 Neutral clouds within the local x-ray plasma....Pages 165-168 The evaporation of nearby clouds and the soft X-ray background....Pages 169-172 Diffuse ionized gas in the β CMa tunnel....Pages 173-176 Energetic particles in the local bubble....Pages 177-186 Low energy cosmic rays emitted by the orion complex into the local medium....Pages 187-190 Structure within the local bubble: Properties of individual clouds....Pages 191-194 Kinematical structure of the local interstellar medium....Pages 195-198 Radio, millimeter and infrared observations of the local hot bubble and its environment....Pages 199-210 Study of the LISM using pulsar scintillation....Pages 211-214 Interstellar scintillation of radio sources as a probe for investigations of the local interstellar medium....Pages 215-218 Remarkable details in the local bubble’s HI distribution....Pages 219-222 Pulsars and bubble dynamics....Pages 223-226 The magnetic field near the local bubble....Pages 227-238 The local magnetic field in the milky way....Pages 239-242 Imaging polarimetry of nearby molecular clouds....Pages 243-246 Distribution and space density of soft X-ray emitting polars in the solar neighbourhood....Pages 247-250 Small scale structure in nearby molecular gas....Pages 251-260 Orfeus-I observations of molecular hydrogen in the galactic disk....Pages 261-264 Physical association between the southern coalsack and chamaeleon-musca dark clouds....Pages 265-268 The local bubble, local fluff, and heliosphere....Pages 269-278 Measurements of the size and pressure of the local bubble towards eridanus....Pages 279-282 Mapping cool gas in the ISM with ROSAT ....Pages 283-286 Interaction of the local bubble with its environment....Pages 287-296 Bubbles in collision: Hydrodynamical models....Pages 297-300 The volume filling factor of the WIM....Pages 301-304 The influence of the local bubble on the ionization of the local interstellar cloud....Pages 305-308 Modeling the galactic 3/4 keV X-ray background....Pages 309-320 Tracing small-scale fluctuations in the soft X-ray background....Pages 321-324 Intensity variations of the soft X-ray background: the boundary structure of the local hot bubble at low galactic latitudes....Pages 325-328 Small-scale 1/4keV fluctuations due to the local hot bubble....Pages 329-332 Fluctuations in the diffuse soft X-ray background; probably of galactic halo origin....Pages 333-336 The radiation transfer of soft X-rays....Pages 337-340 Equilibrium ionization and non-equilibrium ionization plasma models....Pages 341-352 Infrared emission from interstellar dust in the local interstellar medium....Pages 353-362 Cirrus as a probe for the galactic bubble bath....Pages 363-366 A limit on galactic extinction not correlated with far IR emission....Pages 367-370 Dust in hot environments: giant dusty galactic halos....Pages 371-380 In situ measurements of interstellar dust....Pages 381-384 Dust composition in the low density medium around spica....Pages 385-388 26 Al in the local interstellar medium....Pages 389-392 26 Al radioactivity in the galaxy....Pages 393-396 Evolution of evolution of superbubbles....Pages 397-407 Gravitational fragmentation in expanding shells....Pages 409-412 Star formation in expanding shells: When and where....Pages 413-416 X-ray emission from G359.1-0.5....Pages 417-420 Origin and evolution of the cepheus bubble....Pages 421-424 ASCA SIS X-ray observations of the wind blown bubble NGC 6888....Pages 425-428 New measurements of the 4 He abundance in galactic HII regions....Pages 429-432 Ultraviolet absorption line studies of halo gas....Pages 433-441 Simulations of halo supernova remnants....Pages 443-446 Optical studies of a local filament toward the magellanic clouds and a local IVC region....Pages 447-450 The role of magnetic reconnection in the interaction of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disk....Pages 451-454 High-velocity clouds and their soft X-ray emission....Pages 455-466 The high-velocity clouds: Galactic or extragalactic?....Pages 467-470 The galactic X-ray halo....Pages 471-474 The galactic halo in hydrostatic equilibrium....Pages 475-478 The galactic H i halo....Pages 479-482 The galactic fountain....Pages 483-494 3D hydrodynamical simulations of a galactic fountain....Pages 495-498 Cloud formation in a Galactic fountain resulting from Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities....Pages 499-502 The hot galactic corona and the soft X-ray background....Pages 503-512 A soft X-ray halo of the LMC?....Pages 513-516 The ORFEUS far ultraviolet spectrum of the LMC binary star HDE 269546....Pages 517-520 The HI supergiant shells in the Large Magellanic cloud....Pages 521-524 Diffuse ionized gas in halos of spiral galaxies....Pages 525-538 Magnetic reconnection and extraplanar diffuse ionized gas....Pages 539-542 Turbulent heating in the galactic diffuse ionized gas....Pages 543-546 ROSAT observations of NGC 4258....Pages 547-550 A ring of X-rays from the Cartwheel galaxy....Pages 551-554 Radio and polarization properties in the disk and halo of edge-on spirals....Pages 555-558 Superbubbles in dwarf galaxies: blown out or blown away?....Pages 559-562 The Local Bubble and Beyond: Summary....Pages 563-580 Workshop for continued discussion of the Local Bubble....Pages 581-586 D. Breitschwerdt, M.j. Freyberg, J. Trümper (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.