Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. 1. Interstellar Hydrogen 1
5. 2. The Physical State of the Interstellar Gas 78
6. 3. Interstellar Dust 155
7. 4. Interstellar Magnetic Fields and Nonthermal Radio Emission 225
8. 5. Interstellar Gas Dynamics and the Evolution of the Interstellar Medium 298
9. Appendix I. The Probability of Elementary Processes for Hydrogenlike Atoms and Ions 406
10. Appendix II. Coefficients of Excitation and De-excitation of Metastable Levels by Electron Collisions 421
11. Appendix III. Electronic Terms of Simple Diatomic Molecules 426
12. References 430
13. Index 457