Atomic and Molecular Data for Space Astronomy

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A Selection of Papers Presented at the Joint Commission Meeting III of the 21st IAU General Assembly Held in Buenos Aires, Argentian 23 July - 1 August 1991
This is a very useful reference book for working astronomers and astrophysicists. Forming the proceedings of a recent IAU meeting where the availability and the needs of atomic and molecular data were discussed, the papers published here discuss existing and planned instruments for astronomical spectroscopy from earth-orbiting satellites. In particular, the atomic and molecular parameters that are, or will be, needed for analysis of the data obtained by these instruments are considered. A number of significant shortcomings in the available databases are identified. The needs highlighted will be of interest to laboratory astrophysicists, both experimentalists and theorists, who canproduce the data required. A second group of papers provides a current inventory of atomic and molecular data compilations.
This is a reference book for the working astronomer. The authors describe the instrumentation of satellites for spectroscopy with an emphasis on atomic and molecular parameters. They also discuss critically both data analysis and the reliability of existing databases.

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Peter L. Smith

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