The local bubble and beyond: Lyman-Spitzer colloquium

Lyman Spitzer 1914 – 1997....Pages 1-4
Introductory lecture: The local and general interstellar medium....Pages 5-16
Observations of the local interstellar cloud....Pages 17-28
The intrinsic properties of the local interstellar medium....Pages 29-32
A thermal pressure inside the local bubble, as revealed by CI fine-structure excitation....Pages 33-36
Ultra-high resolution Ca II observations of the LISM....Pages 37-40
EURD: An extreme ultraviolet spectrograph to probe the hot interstellar medium....Pages 41-44
New insights on the local ISM from EUV observations....Pages 45-56
Spectral observations of the diffuse FUV background with DUVE (the diffuse UV experiment)....Pages 57-60
The thermal pressure of the interstellar medium derived from cloud shadows in the extreme ultraviolet....Pages 61-64
The structure of the local hot bubble toward l = 165°, b = 0° using IUE and ROSAT data....Pages 65-68
The interstellar and circumstellar environment of white dwarfs....Pages 69-74
D/H-ratio: Observations with ORFEUS II....Pages 75-78
The diffuse extreme ultraviolet background....Pages 79-82
The soft X-ray background spectrum from DXS....Pages 83-90
GRADES: A new instrument for spectroscopy of the local hot gas....Pages 91-94
Planned observations of hot gas in the LISM....Pages 95-98
Interstellar C IV and Si IV in the direction of loop I....Pages 99-102
A new view of the LHB and 1/4 keV X-ray halo....Pages 103-112
On the zero-level of the soft X-ray background....Pages 113-116
ISOPHOT observations of a cold filament in the local hot bubble....Pages 117-120
Modeling the local bubble....Pages 121-131
Modeling the local bubble using multiple supernova remnants....Pages 133-136
Thin layer approximation in 3-D....Pages 137-140
Interaction of interstellar shocks with dense obstacles: Formation of “bullets”....Pages 141-144
Magnetorotational mechanism: 2D simulation....Pages 145-148
High-resolution optical observations of diffuse clouds....Pages 149-160
The line of sight of ε canis majoris: Depletion and extent of the local cloud....Pages 161-164
Neutral clouds within the local x-ray plasma....Pages 165-168
The evaporation of nearby clouds and the soft X-ray background....Pages 169-172
Diffuse ionized gas in the β CMa tunnel....Pages 173-176
Energetic particles in the local bubble....Pages 177-186
Low energy cosmic rays emitted by the orion complex into the local medium....Pages 187-190
Structure within the local bubble: Properties of individual clouds....Pages 191-194
Kinematical structure of the local interstellar medium....Pages 195-198
Radio, millimeter and infrared observations of the local hot bubble and its environment....Pages 199-210
Study of the LISM using pulsar scintillation....Pages 211-214
Interstellar scintillation of radio sources as a probe for investigations of the local interstellar medium....Pages 215-218
Remarkable details in the local bubble’s HI distribution....Pages 219-222
Pulsars and bubble dynamics....Pages 223-226
The magnetic field near the local bubble....Pages 227-238
The local magnetic field in the milky way....Pages 239-242
Imaging polarimetry of nearby molecular clouds....Pages 243-246
Distribution and space density of soft X-ray emitting polars in the solar neighbourhood....Pages 247-250
Small scale structure in nearby molecular gas....Pages 251-260
Orfeus-I observations of molecular hydrogen in the galactic disk....Pages 261-264
Physical association between the southern coalsack and chamaeleon-musca dark clouds....Pages 265-268
The local bubble, local fluff, and heliosphere....Pages 269-278
Measurements of the size and pressure of the local bubble towards eridanus....Pages 279-282
Mapping cool gas in the ISM with ROSAT ....Pages 283-286
Interaction of the local bubble with its environment....Pages 287-296
Bubbles in collision: Hydrodynamical models....Pages 297-300
The volume filling factor of the WIM....Pages 301-304
The influence of the local bubble on the ionization of the local interstellar cloud....Pages 305-308
Modeling the galactic 3/4 keV X-ray background....Pages 309-320
Tracing small-scale fluctuations in the soft X-ray background....Pages 321-324
Intensity variations of the soft X-ray background: the boundary structure of the local hot bubble at low galactic latitudes....Pages 325-328
Small-scale 1/4keV fluctuations due to the local hot bubble....Pages 329-332
Fluctuations in the diffuse soft X-ray background; probably of galactic halo origin....Pages 333-336
The radiation transfer of soft X-rays....Pages 337-340
Equilibrium ionization and non-equilibrium ionization plasma models....Pages 341-352
Infrared emission from interstellar dust in the local interstellar medium....Pages 353-362
Cirrus as a probe for the galactic bubble bath....Pages 363-366
A limit on galactic extinction not correlated with far IR emission....Pages 367-370
Dust in hot environments: giant dusty galactic halos....Pages 371-380
In situ measurements of interstellar dust....Pages 381-384
Dust composition in the low density medium around spica....Pages 385-388
 26 Al in the local interstellar medium....Pages 389-392
 26 Al radioactivity in the galaxy....Pages 393-396
Evolution of evolution of superbubbles....Pages 397-407
Gravitational fragmentation in expanding shells....Pages 409-412
Star formation in expanding shells: When and where....Pages 413-416
X-ray emission from G359.1-0.5....Pages 417-420
Origin and evolution of the cepheus bubble....Pages 421-424
ASCA SIS X-ray observations of the wind blown bubble NGC 6888....Pages 425-428
New measurements of the 4 He abundance in galactic HII regions....Pages 429-432
Ultraviolet absorption line studies of halo gas....Pages 433-441
Simulations of halo supernova remnants....Pages 443-446
Optical studies of a local filament toward the magellanic clouds and a local IVC region....Pages 447-450
The role of magnetic reconnection in the interaction of high-velocity clouds and the Galactic disk....Pages 451-454
High-velocity clouds and their soft X-ray emission....Pages 455-466
The high-velocity clouds: Galactic or extragalactic?....Pages 467-470
The galactic X-ray halo....Pages 471-474
The galactic halo in hydrostatic equilibrium....Pages 475-478
The galactic H i halo....Pages 479-482
The galactic fountain....Pages 483-494
3D hydrodynamical simulations of a galactic fountain....Pages 495-498
Cloud formation in a Galactic fountain resulting from Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities....Pages 499-502
The hot galactic corona and the soft X-ray background....Pages 503-512
A soft X-ray halo of the LMC?....Pages 513-516
The ORFEUS far ultraviolet spectrum of the LMC binary star HDE 269546....Pages 517-520
The HI supergiant shells in the Large Magellanic cloud....Pages 521-524
Diffuse ionized gas in halos of spiral galaxies....Pages 525-538
Magnetic reconnection and extraplanar diffuse ionized gas....Pages 539-542
Turbulent heating in the galactic diffuse ionized gas....Pages 543-546
ROSAT observations of NGC 4258....Pages 547-550
A ring of X-rays from the Cartwheel galaxy....Pages 551-554
Radio and polarization properties in the disk and halo of edge-on spirals....Pages 555-558
Superbubbles in dwarf galaxies: blown out or blown away?....Pages 559-562
The Local Bubble and Beyond: Summary....Pages 563-580
Workshop for continued discussion of the Local Bubble....Pages 581-586