Experiments on Cosmic Dust Analogues: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte (OAC 2), held at Capri, Italy, September 8–12, 1987

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Comet Nucleus Sample Return Mission....Pages 1-16
Initial Comet Simulation Experiments at DFVLR....Pages 17-23
Methods and Difficulties in Laboratory Studies of Cosmic Dust Analogues....Pages 25-42
Experiments on the Formation, Properties and Processing of Cosmic Dust....Pages 43-61
Solid Carbon in Space....Pages 63-73
PAHs, The State of Art....Pages 75-94
Laboratory Production of Amorphous Silicates....Pages 95-102
Ion Bombardment: Techniques, Materials and Applications....Pages 103-113
The Structure and Dynamics of Amorphous Water Ice and Trapping of Gases in It....Pages 115-119
A New Identification of the 6.2, 7.7 and 8.5 µ m Circumstellar Emission Features with Oxidized QCC....Pages 121-127
On PAHs as Interstellar Grains: Infrared Absorption Coefficients....Pages 129-135
Experimental Evidences for HAC and PAHs Soup in Space....Pages 137-143
IR Spectroscopy of Acid Insoluble Residues of Carbonaceous Chondrites....Pages 145-152
Light Standing-Waves in Aggregates of Amorphous Carbon Grains....Pages 153-160
Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon-Coated Silicate Particles: Diamond and Graphite-Like Carbons and Interstellar Extinction....Pages 161-165
Amorphous Carbon and Silicon Carbide Grains Around Carbon Stars....Pages 167-173
Grain Formation Experiments by a Plasma Jet Apparatus....Pages 175-180
Determination of the U.V.-Visible Optical Properties of Submicronic Carbonaceous Particles at High Temperature from Scattering and Extinction Measurements....Pages 181-190
Experimental Studies of Circumstellar, Interstellar and Interplanetary Refractory Grains Analogs....Pages 191-207
Optical Properties of Glassy Bronzite and the Interstellar Silicate Bands....Pages 209-225
Piroxene Glasses - Candidates for Interstellar Silicates....Pages 227-230
Silicate Grains in Space: Laboratory Results....Pages 231-238
Laboratory Studies of Extraterrestrial Chemistry Initiated by Atomic Silicon Ions in the Gas Phase....Pages 239-244
Light Scattering from Simulated Interstellar Dust....Pages 245-252
Laboratory Measurements of Light Scattering by Dust Particles....Pages 253-258
Molecular Diffusions in Ices — Implications for the Composition of Interstellar Grain Mantles and Comet Nuclei....Pages 259-269
Formation of Particulates by Ion Bombardment of Cryogenic Ice Mixtures....Pages 271-279
Some Consequences of Frozen Gas Irradiation by Energetic Ions....Pages 281-286
HD and CO Release During MeV Ion Irradiation of H 2 O/CD 4 Frozen Mixtures at 9 K....Pages 287-291
Studies of Absorption Features in the 3 µ m Spectra of Highly Obscured Stellar and Protostellar Objects....Pages 293-297
An Ionic Look at Interstellar Grain Mantles....Pages 299-311
Infrared Properties of Interstellar Grains Derived from IRAS Observations....Pages 313-319
Interstellar Circular Polarization and the Dielectric Nature....Pages 321-327
Size Distribution of Cometary Dust, Meteoroids and Zodiacal Grains....Pages 329-336
A Zodiacal Dust Emission Model....Pages 337-344
Report of the Working Group on Carbon....Pages 345-347
Report of the Working Group on Silicates....Pages 349-352
Report of the Working Group on Ice and Related Topics....Pages 353-357
Back Matter....Pages 359-369