The Cosmic Dust Connection

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Formation and Evolution of Interstellar Icy Grain Mantles....Pages 1-42
The Core-Mantle Interstellar Dust Model....Pages 43-70
Organic Material in the Interstellar Medium....Pages 71-80
PAHs, They’re Everywhere!....Pages 81-102
Neutral and Ionized PAH Spectral Properties....Pages 103-115
Absorption Spectra of HI Clouds....Pages 117-132
Infrared Spectroscopy of Interstellar Ices....Pages 133-154
Polarization Of Starlight By Interstellar Dust....Pages 155-170
Observations of CO Ices in Molecular Clouds....Pages 171-177
Determination of the Optical Constants of Ices in the Mid-Infrared....Pages 179-184
Some Astrophysical Applications of Ion Irradiation Experiments....Pages 185-204
Grain Formation and Metamorphism....Pages 205-221
Optical Data of Glassy Pyroxenes and Olivines....Pages 223-231
Dust In Herbig Ae/Be Stars and the Cosmic Dust Connection....Pages 233-239
Statistical Properties of the Interstellar Dust in Faint Early-Type Galaxies....Pages 241-245
The Tauvex UV Imager and Its Contribution to the Study of Dust....Pages 247-255
Dust Properties And Distribution in the UV....Pages 257-263
Extinction and Infrared Emission from Fractal Dust Grains....Pages 265-271
Modeling Astrophysical Phenomena Involving Dust....Pages 273-290
Properties of Interstellar Grains Derived From X-Ray Halos....Pages 291-292
Light Extinction by Layered Grains....Pages 293-296
Improvement of the Discrete Dipole Approximation for the Scattering Calculations of Clusters: the a 1 -Term Method....Pages 297-301
Pulse-Heating of Fragments from Orgueil (CI): Simulation of Atmospheric Entry Heating of Micrometeorites....Pages 303-311
Post-Flight Analyses of Impact Sites on Eureca Spacecraft and Solar Cell Arrays....Pages 313-321
Laboratory Investigations of Hydrogen Recombination Reactions on Interstellar Dust Grain Analogues....Pages 323-332
On the Origin of Complex Interstellar Molecules....Pages 333-340
A Circumsolar Dust Ring Near the Earth....Pages 341-348
Area to Mass Ratio and Packing Factor from Meteor Data....Pages 349-355
Cometary Dust Loss, Meteoroid Streams and the Inner Solar System Dust Cloud....Pages 357-397
Dust Around Young Stellar Objects....Pages 399-412
Origin and Evolution Of Cometary Ice....Pages 413-441
Comets as Samplers of Interstellar Dust....Pages 443-458
The Link Between Cometary and Interstellar Dust....Pages 459-465
Organic Solids in the Outer Solar System: Kuiper Belt Planetesimals....Pages 467-475
3-D Modelling of the Surface Activity of a Comet Nucleus....Pages 477-485
Two Approaches to Discuss the Unexpected Activity of Comets at Large Heliocentric Distances....Pages 487-493
Numerical Modelling of Gas Production Curves of a Dust Covered Comet Nucleus....Pages 495-503
Physical Processes on Grains Important for the Chemical Evolution of Interstellar Clouds....Pages 505-521
Back Matter....Pages 523-545