The Role of Dust in Dense Regions of Interstellar Matter Proceedings of the Jena Workshop, Held in Georgenthal, G.d.r., March 10-14, 1986.
[Book]
Henning, Thomas
Springer Verlag
2013
Preface.- I: Basic Observational and Laboratory Data of Dust Properties.- Dust Models Confronted with Observations.- The Role of Grains in Molecular Chemical Evolution.- Interstellar Gas Depletion and Dust Parameters.- On the Geometrical Cross-Section of an N-Mer.- Experimental Investigations of Astronomically Important Interstellar Silicates.- Problems with the Interpretation of the 220 nm Interstellar Feature.- Observations of the Very Broad-Band Structure by Combined uvby and UBV Photometry.- Carbon Molecules as Possible Carrier of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands.- Astrophysical Influences on the Diffuse Interstellar Lines.- II: Properties of Dense Clouds and Circumstellar Dust Shells.- Submm/Farinfrared Observations of Cold and Warm Dust Clouds.- On the Dust and Gas Associated with Sharpless 252.- The RHO Ophiuchi Cloud - An Overview.- The Relation Between Molecular Clouds and Stellar Kinematics.- The IRAS Satellite - Some Remarks on the Data, Their Availability and their Usage in Leiden.- Circumstellar Dust Shells Around Very Young and Massive Stars.- III: Very Young Stellar Objects and Star Formation in Molecular Clouds.- Bipolar Nebulae and Jets from Young Stars: Contributions from Calar Alto.- BN Objects - A Class of Very Young and Massive Stars.- Centers of Activity in Dust Clouds.- The Simulation of the Initial Mass Function and Star Formation Efficiency.- Self-Regulated Star Formation and Evolution of Stellar Systems.- The Past Star Formation Rate and the Initial Mass-Function in the Solar Neighbourhood.- Concluding Remarks.