Atomic and Molecular Data for Space Astronomy : Needs, Analysis, and Availability

International Astronomical Union

ISBN 10: 0387979093 / ISBN 13: 9780387979090

Published by Springer, 1992

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pp. 158.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Atomic and Molecular Data for Space Astronomy : Needs, Analysis, and Availability
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387979093
• ISBN 13: 9780387979090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.