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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The Physics of the Interstellar Medium is the second edition of a highly popular students text. The book leads the advanced undergraduate through the wide range of disciplines related to an understanding of the interstellar medium and is suitable for any student studying either physics or astrophysics. Considerable progress has been made in the field over the last decade, making this up-to-date understanding of the insterstellar medium particularly timely.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Preface to the Second Edition.

-Useful Tables.

-1- Introduction.

-2- How We Obtain Information About the Interstellar Medium.

-3- Microscopic Processes in the Interstellar Medium.

-4- Interstellar Grains.

-5- Radiatively Excited Regions.

-6- Introduction to Gas Dynamics.

-7- Gas Dynamical Effects of Massive Stars on the Interstellar Medium.

-8- Star Formation and Star Forming Regions.

-Answers to Problems.

-Index.

OUR REVIEW

The Graduate Series in Astronomy continues to increase, in this case with the second edition of this book that reviews in detail how the interstellar medium is from a physical viewpoint. This work explains us how we get information on this medium, which the microscopic processes that take place in it are, and it also tells us about interstellar grains, the dynamics of gases, etc., culminating in a description on how stars are created and how the regions of space that give birth to this stellar formation are.

As a text for the student, The Physics of the Interstellar Medium covers the issue in sufficient depth so as to be able to guide us towards what can be a new professional field of research. Completely updated, it includes the latest data obtained by astronomers and astrophysicians, as well as problems and solutions adapted to the contents in each chapter.