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Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei, second edition

By: Donald E. Osterbrock, Gary J. Ferland

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Hardcover | 1 November 2005 | Edition Number 2

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Thoroughly revised, expanded and updated throughout, this new edition of Astrophysics of GaseousNebulae 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.

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"This is a much-needed update to the classic work by Osterbrock with the same title, one of the most heavily used and cited in all of astrophysics. It states physical principles very clearly and shows their applications to many types of astronomical objects. Important developments since the previous volume, especially in infrared and X-ray astronomy, have been added."--John S. Mathis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"This new edition of AGN2 is impressive for the breadth of processes and objects that it covers. Full of physical insight, it remains the definitive reference for understanding every type of emission-line object. I keep a copy on my desk at all times."--Robert Williams, Space Telescope Science Institute

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Non-Fiction Science Astronomy, Space & Time Galaxies & Stars Physics Applied Physics Astrophysics Science in General

General introduction	p. 1
Photoionization equilibrium	p. 17
Thermal equilibrium	p. 45
Calculation of emitted spectrum	p. 67
Comparison of theory with observations	p. 107
Internal dynamics of gaseous nebulae	p. 157
Interstellar dust	p. 177
Infrared radiation and molecules	p. 207
H II regions in the galactic context	p. 225
Planetary nebulae	p. 247
Heavy elements and high-energy effects	p. 277
Nova and supernova remnants	p. 295
Active galactic nuclei - diagnostics and physics	p. 325
Active galactic nuclei - results	p. 353
Measures of light	p. 395
Milne relation between capture and photoionization cross sections	p. 401
Emissions lines of neutral atoms	p. 405
Nebular quantum mechanics	p. 407
Atomic data for heavy element ionization balance	p. 423
Quantum mechanics of molecules	p. 433
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