Interstellar Dust

Section I: Dust in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium. - Measurements of Interstellar Extinction. - Insights on Dust Grain Formation and Destruction Provided by Gas-Phase Element Abundances. - Interstellar Extinction in External Galaxies. - Dust towards the Galactic Centre. - Linear and Circular Polarization in the Diffuse ISM. - Diffuse Interstellar Bands. - Visible/UV Scattering by Interstellar Dust. - Section II: The Overidentified Infrared Emission Features. - Infrared Emission from Reflection Nebulæ. - Observations of HII Regions and Planetary Nebulæ: the Infrared Emission Bands. - Aromatic Infrared Emission in Cirrus Clouds. - The Infrared Emission Features and PAHs. - The Infrared Emission Features and HAC Particles. - Optical Properties of Carbonaceous Materials. - Physical and Chemical Properties of PAHs. - The PAH Hypothesis and the Extinction Curve. - A Critical Assessment of the PAH Hypothesis. - Chemical Optical and Infrared Properties of QCCs. - Grains or Molecules? Thermal or non-Thermal?. - Infrared Emission Mechanism in Large Isolated Molecules. - Panel Discussion on Treatments of Processes in PAH Molecules. - Ection III: Dust in Dense Clouds. - The Heating of Interstellar Gas by Dust. - Dust in Dense Clouds. - Dust and the Gas Phase Composition of Dense Clouds. - Polarized Infrared Emission from Dust. - Section IV: Dust in Galaxies. - Far Infrared Emission from Galactic and Extragalactic Dust. - Observations of Infrared Emission from Galaxies. - Section V: Optical Properties of Grains. - On the Interpretation of the ? 2175 Å Feature. - Pitfalls in Calculating Scattering by Small Particles. - Fractal Dust Grains. - Section VI: Interstellar Dust Models. - The Core-Mantle Model of Interstellar Grains and the Cosmic Dust Connection. - Bare Carbon/Silicate Theories. - Grains in DiffuseClouds: Carbon-Coated Silicate Cores. - Open Panel Discussion on Interstellar Grain Models. - Section VII: Interstellar Dust and the Solar System. - Interstellar Molecules in Meteorites. - Interstellar Grains in Meteorites: Diamond and Silicon Carbide. - Interstellar Dust in Collected Interplanetary Dust Particles. - Comet Dust: Connections with Interstellar Dust. - Section VIII: Bust Formation and Destruction. - Dust Destruction in the Interstellar Medium. - Sources of Stardust in the Galaxy. - The Composition of Dust in Stellar Ejecta. - Dust Condensation in Stellar Outflows. - Infrared Emission from Dust in Supernovae and Supernova Remnants. - Summary. - Critical Questions for the Future. - Contributed Papers. - Addresses of Participants. - Object Index. - Index of Molecules. Language: English