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INTERSTELLAR DUST AND EXTINCTION
John S. Mathis
Washburn Observatory, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
475 N. Charter St., Madison, Wisconsin 53706
KEY WORDS: interstellar medium, molecular clouds, interstellar grains
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- INTERSTELLAR EXTINCTION
- Continuous Extinction
- Optical Ultraviolet
Extinction of Diffuse Dust and Outer-Cloud Dust
- The 2175-Å ``Bump''
- NIR Continuous Extinction
- The 9.7- and 18-µm Silicate Features
- Mean Extinction Laws
- EMISSION FROM DUST
- The Unidentified Infrared Bands
- Continuum Emission
- SCATTERING FROM DUST
- POLARIZATION
- Continuum Polarization
- Polarization in Spectral Features
- OTHER DIAGNOSTICS OF INTERSTELLAR DUST
- Depletions in Interstellar Gas
- Sites of Dust Formation
- Solar System Dust
- EVOLUTION OF DUST
- SOME THEORIES, AND PROBLEMS WITH EACH
- SUMMARY
- APPENDIX
- REFERENCES
