PHYS 626 Astrophysics L-D Plasmas
The physics of dust, atomic and molecular radiative and collisional processes, thermal balance shocks, relevant to low-density plasma. Applications to multicomponent nature of interstellar medium, both cool, dense and ionized nebulae, to hot interstellar and intracluster gas, and to environments of active galactic nuclei. Prerequisite: 543 or permission of instructor.