Astronomy 542: ISM

Intro to the ISM:

pdf of intro slides
Radio Course notes - in particular chapter 2 and section 7B are useful for RT, and section 4 will be useful later on for HII regions
Trumpler 1930 "Absorption of Light in the Galactic System"
Dame et al 2001 Galactic distribution of CO
vertical and horizontal perturbations in disk galaxies from Mark Whittle's course notes
Canonical papers: read and understand the classics if you want to stand on the shoulders of giants:
local IS rad field "MMP83" Mathis et al 1983
multiphase ISM: Field,Goldsmith,Habing 1969, McKee&Ostriker 1977
homework #1

Radiative Transfer:

Dust:

grain distribution - classical MRN: MRN 77
phase function: Henyey & Greenstein HG41
light echoes: Chevalier 1986, Sugerman 2007, in cosmological SN1a: Heng 2007
reflection nebulae: Witt 1985
scattered light and cloud density: Juvela 2008
grain distributions, emission and extinction - Weingartner & Draine 2001, Draine & Li 2007
Lecture slides
HW #2

Atomic and Molecular Physics:

HII regions and PDRs: