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Thoroughly revised, expanded and updated throughout,
this new edition of Astrophysics of Gaseous
Nebulae and Active Galactic
Nuclei is a graduate-level text and reference book on gaseous nebulae,
nova and supernova remnants, and the emission-line regions in Seyfert galaxies,
radio galaxies, quasars, and other types of active galactic nuclei. Much
of the new data and many of the new images are from the Hubble Space Telescope
and some of the largest ground-based telescopes in the world. Two wholly
new chapters have been added, one on infrared astronomy and the other on X-ray
astronomy, reflecting the great advances in these fields. This new edition
also contains two completely new appendices, one a long primer on the
quantum-mechanical concepts used in the analysis of nebular emission-line
spectra, and the other a briefer description of molecular spectra. Large
amounts of new data on dust in nebulae and quasars, and the photo-dissociated
regions containing neutral atoms, molecules, and dust within and around them,
have also been added to the book. Thus, the previous edition of this
classic text, which has been tried, tested, and widely used for thirty years,
has now been succeeded by a new, revised, updated, larger edition, which will be
valuable to anyone seriously interested in astrophysics.

Astrophysics Of Gas Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei

1 General Introduction





2 Photoionization Equilibrium





3 Thermal Equilibrium





4 Calculation of Emitted Spectrum





5 Comparison of Theory with Observations





6 Internal Dynamics of Gaseous Nebulae





7 Interstellar Dust





8 Infrared Radiation and Molecules





9 H II Regions in the Galactic Context





10 Planetary Nebulae





11 Heavy Elements and High-Energy Effects





12 Nova and Supernova Remnants





13 Active Galactic Nuclei - Diagnostics and Physics





14 Active Galactic Nuclei - Results





Appendix 1 Measures of Light





Appendix 2 Milne Relation Between Capture and Photoionization Cross Sections





Appendix 3 Emission Lines of Neutral Atoms





Appendix 4 Nebular Quantum Mechanics





Appendix 5 Atomic Data for Heavy Element Ionization Balance





Appendix 6 Quantum Mechanics of Molecules





Index