Molecules In Astrophysics Book

	Preface
	Conference Summary: Molecules in astrophysics	1
	Molecules in astrophysics half a century ago	13
	Molecules in star formation	19
	High angular resolution observations of the gas phase composition of young stellar objects	31
	Ices in star forming regions	45
	Observations of "Hot Cores"	61
	Models of hot molecular cores	75
	Mixing layers in flows in star-forming regions	89
	Molecular observations of shocks and outflows	103
	Non-thermal sputtering of grains and production of SiO in interstellar shocks	113
	Photon-dominated regions: Observations of [C I] and CO	129
	Photon-dominated and X-ray dominated regions	141
	X-ray ionization of protostellar disks	155
	Masers as chemical probes of star-forming regions	163
	Dark cloud observations: Problems and progress	173
	Molecular depletions in cloud cores	183
	Evidence for collapse in dark clouds	193
	The impact of comet D/Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter	205
	Cometary volatiles	219
	In Memoriam: Sheldon Green	239
	Inelastic collisions of interstellar molecules	241
	Reactions between neutral species at low temperatures: Laboratory results and astrophysical modelling	253
	Dynamics of chemical reactions of astrophysical interest	271
	Infrared and optical spectroscopy of astrophysical molecules	281
	Electronic spectra of carbon chains of relevance to astrophysics	287
	Determination of opacity data bases for TiO and H[subscript 2]O	295
	Microprobe two-step laser mass spectrometry as an analytical tool for meteoritic samples	305
	Modeling of interstellar surface processes	321
	Laboratory simulation of physical and chemical processes in interstellar ices	331
	Interstellar dust grains - an overview	343
	The PAH hypothesis: Spectroscopic properties of large aromatic molecules in the infrared	357
	New dust features in oxygen-rich envelopes	367
	Infrared spectroscopy with the Infrared Space Observatory	373
	Detection of thermal water vapor emission from W Hydrae	385
	ISO LWS spectra of AGB and post-AGB objects	389
	First detection of thermal H[subscript 2]O Emission from a Herbig-Haro Object	393
	Abundant, hot water toward young stellar objects	397
	A search for interstellar gas-phase CO[subscript 2]	401
	Optical and ultraviolet observations of diffuse interstellar clouds	407
	Millimeter-wave observations of diffuse clouds	421
	Theoretical models of diffuse clouds	431
	Cool star models	441
	The neutral envelopes around AGB and post-AGB objects	457
	Chemical models of AGB winds	469
	Chemistry in planetary nebulae	477
	Physical properties and kinematics of the molecular gas near galaxy nuclei	489
	CO detection in the quasar BR1202-0725 at z = 4.69	501
	Water megamasers as a probe of a circumnuclear accretion disk in an active galaxy	505
	Chemistry in the LMC and SMC	515
	Quasar absorption line observations	525
	Appendices	535