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r QB Spitzer, Lyman 790 . S66 Diffuse matter in space. 523.1135 S >--- A i. SPITZER, JR. Diffuse Matter in Space Number 28 Inteficience Tracts on Physics and Astronomy INTERSCIENCE TRACTS ON PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY Edited by R. E. Marshak University of Rochester 1. D. J. Hughes NEUTRON OPTICS 2. M. S. Livingston HIGH-ENERGY ACCELERATORS 3. L. Spitzer, Jr. PHYSICS OF FULLY IONIZED GASES second edition 4. T. G. Cowling MA GNETOHYDR OD YNAMICS 5. D. ter Haar INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICS OF MANY¬ BODY SYSTEMS 6. E. J. Opik PHYSICS OF METEOR FLIGHT IN THE ATMOSPHERE 7. K. Mendelssohn CRYOPHYSICS 8. J. L. Delcroix INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF IONIZED GASES 9. T. E. Sterne AN INTRODUCTION TO CELESTIAL MECHANICS 10. J. Weber GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVES 11. R. E. Marshak and E. C. G. Sudarshan INTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS 12. J. L. Olsen ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN METALS 13. M. Francon MODERN APPLICATIONS OF PHYSICAL OPTICS 14. P. B. Jones THE OPTICAL MODEL IN NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS 15. R. K. Adair and E. C. Fowler STRANGE PARTICLES 16. R. Wilson THE NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTION: EXPERIMENTAL AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL ASPECTS 17. J. F. Denisse and J. L. Decroix PLASMA WAVES 18. W. F. Brown, Jr. MICROMAGNETICS 19. A. Rose CONCEPTS IN PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY AND ALLIED PROBLEMS 20. A. Guinier and D. L. Dexter X-RAY STUDIES OF MATERIALS 21. T. G. Northrup THE ADIABATIC MOTION OF CHARGED PARTICLES 22. G. Barton INTRODUCTION TO ADVANCED FIELD THEORY 23. C. D. Jeffries DYNAMIC NUCLEAR ORIENTATION 24. G. B. Benedek MAGNETIC RESONANCE AT HIGH PRESSURE 25. D. L. Dexter and R. S. Knox EXCITONS 26. D. H. Sampson RADIATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENERGY AND MOMENTUM TRANSPORT IN A GAS 27. P. Carruthers INTRODUCTION TO UNITARY SYMMETRY 28. L. Spitzer, Jr. DIFFUSE MATTER IN SPACE Additional volumes in preparation Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/diffusematterinsOOOOspit M16, an H II region in our Galaxy. This bright nebula, surrounding an 05 star, is also known as NGC 6611. Photograph obtained in red light with the Palomar 200-inch telescope, Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories. DIFFUSE MAHER IN SPACE LYMAN SPITZER, JR. Princeton University Observatory Princeton, New Jersey INTERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS a division of John Wiley & Sons, New York . London . Sydney . Toronto 5 3. //35 *2 5 76/d /?6? Copyright © 1968 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means, nor transmitted, nor translated into a machine language without the written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 68-29397 SBN 470 817100 Printed in the United States of America To my wife