Grading, textbooks, etc
Phases, properties of gas and dust, distribution of ISM
Techniques available at all wavelengths
Photoionization & recombination of hydrogen and other elements, HII regions, Stromgren spheres, partially ionized regions, collisional ionization.
Visible & radio recombination lines of hydrogen and other elements, free-free radiation, bound-free radiation. Determining properties of HII regions from radio continuum data
Multi-electron ions, collisional excitation, determining temperatures, densities and abundances in HII regions, thermal balance in HII regions
Basic radio astronomy, emission and absorption, , rotation curves of the Galaxy, kinematic distances, measuring masses of HI in galaxies. estimating gas temperatures, introduction to phases of ISM.
Curves of growth, equivalent widths, Copernicus HI studies, molecular hydrogen, interstellar abundances & depletion, diffuse interstellar bands.
Molecular hydrogen, formation and destruction of molecules grain surface and gas phase chemistry, PAH molecules.
Observations of mm CO emission, optical depth and excitation effects, cloud models, LVG codes, use of isotopes, high density tracers, determining physical conditions in clouds. Typical properties of molecular clouds. Interstellar masers.
Dust extinction, reddening, IR and UV properties, scattering and albedo, exceptions to thin-screen model, gas-dust correlations, X-ray absorption. Polarization of starlight
Thermal equilibrium of dust grains, VSGs and PAH emission. Lyman-alpha heating of dust within HII regions, dust inside the Solar System.
Size of dust grains from extinction curve, Dust spectral features, abundance considerations. Origin of dust grains, carbon-rich and oxygen rich stars, destruction processes, sputtering, interstellar grains within the Solar System, interplanetary dust.
Nature of interstellar magnetic field, flux freezing, ambipolar diffusion, Zeeman effect, Alfven waves, interstellar polarization.
Sound speed, jump conditions, ionization fronts, radiation from shocks, Coronal lines, X-ray emission. IR molecular hydrogen emission
Energy spectra, composition, propagation, scattering, lifetime in Galaxy, gamma ray production,
Single particle radiation, power laws, polarization, energy losses, self-absorption, supernova remnants, galactic background
Plasma frequency, low frequency absorption, pulsar dispersion, Faraday rotation, Faraday depolarization, interstellar scintillation
Cooling processes in molecular, atomic and ionized gas, Heating processes, pressure balance, thermal instabilities, shock heated gas, models for interstellar clouds, photo-dissociation regions.
Scale heights, Oort limit, thickness of gas distributions in the Galaxy, large-scale structure of HI, distribution of molecular clouds, spiral arms, diffuse ionized gas, gas in the halo, high velocity clouds, Galactic Center.
Local bubble, interplanetary medium, solar wind, heliopause, Lyman-alpha backscattering, helium wake.
Jeans length, fragmentation, Parker instability, stability of molecular clouds, virial mass, spherical collapse, rotation, formation of disks
Molecular cores, low mass star formation, bipolar flows, clustering, high mass star formation, triggered star formation.
Mass loss stars, planetary nebulae, Supernovae, evolution and balance of interstellar medium
ISM in Ellipticals. Differences in spiral gas content along Hubble sequence. Starbursts, AGNs. Emission line diagnostics
Gareth Wynn-Williams (wynnwill@ifa.hawaii.edu)