Astrochemistry: Recent Successes and Current Challenges (IAU S231) (Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposia and Colloquia) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521852021 ISBN 13: 9780521852029

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

A rapidly growing interdisciplinary field, astrochemistry is the study of molecules and their chemistry in sources throughout the universe. In IAU S231, astronomers and chemists survey the current state of the field. The contributions in astronomy show how the study of molecules has aided our understanding of the physical conditions in many different types of regions, from the interstellar medium of our own galaxy to the very edge of the Universe. The contributions in laboratory and theoretical chemistry show how much we have learned about these often exotic chemical processes and how much more there is to learn. Suitable for researchers and graduate students in diverse disciplines, this volume will provide a sense both of the scope of astrochemistry in the early years of the twenty-first century and the immense possibilities of this field for future growth.

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Book Description

In IAU S231, astronomers and chemists survey the current state of the interdisciplinary field of astrochemistry. Suitable for researchers and graduate students in diverse disciplines, this volume presents a snapshot of astrochemistry in the early years of the twenty-first century and the immense possibilities of this field for future growth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521852021
• ISBN 13: 9780521852029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 568
• Editor: Lis Dariusz C., Blake Geoffrey A., Herbst Eric