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Quasi-perpendicular Shock Structure and Processes
Balogh, A.; Thomsen, M. F.; Lembège, B. +11 more
Quasi-parallel Shock Structure and Processes
Balogh, A.; Thomsen, M. F.; Lembège, B. +11 more
The Ice Survey Opportunity of ISO
Dartois, Emmanuel
The instruments on board the Infrared Space Observatory have for the first time allowed a complete low (PHOT, CVF) to medium resolution (SWS) spectroscopic harvest, from 2.5 to 45 µm, of interstellar dust. Amongst the detected solids present in starless molecular clouds surrounding recently born stellar and still embedded objects or products…
The Magnetosheath
Sahraoui, F.; Lucek, E. A.; Walker, S. N. +5 more
Crystalline Silicates
Kemper, Ciska; Molster, Frank
One of the big surprises of the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) has been discovery of crystalline silicates outside our own Solar system. It was generally assumed before that all cosmic silicates in space were of amorphous structure. Thanks to ISO we know now that crystalline silicates are ubiquitous in the Galaxy (except for the diffuse ISM) and…
Magnetopause and Boundary Layer
Lundin, R.; Vaivads, A.; Owen, C. J. +6 more
Molecular Hydrogen
Maiolino, Roberto; Habart, Emilie; Walmsley, Malcolm +5 more
Observations of H2 line emission in galactic and extragalactic environments obtained with the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) are reviewed. The diagnostic capability of H2 observations is illustrated. We discuss what one has learned about such diverse astrophysical sources as photon-dominated regions, shocks, young stellar o…
Deep Impact: Working Properties for the Target Nucleus Comet 9P/Tempel 1
Fernández, Yanga R.; A'Hearn, Michael F.; Pittichová, Jana +13 more
In 1998, Comet 9P/Tempel 1 was chosen as the target of the Deep Impact mission (A’Hearn, M. F., Belton, M. J. S., and Delamere, A., Space Sci. Rev., 2005) even though very little was known about its physical properties. Efforts were immediately begun to improve this situation by the Deep Impact Science Team leading to the founding of a worldwide o…
Obscured Activity: AGN, Quasars, Starbursts and ULIGs Observed by the Infrared Space Observatory
Haas, Martin; Klaas, Ulrich; Lutz, Dieter +2 more
Some of the most ‘active’ galaxies in the Universe are obscured by large quantities of dust and emit a substantial fraction of their bolometric luminosity in the infrared. Observations of these infrared luminous galaxies with the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) have provided a relatively unabsorbed view to the sources fuelling this active emissio…
Water in Space: The Water World of ISO
Cernicharo, José; Crovisier, Jacques
In this review we present the main results obtained by the ISO satellite on the abundance and spatial distribution of water vapor in the direction of molecular clouds, evolved stars, galaxies, and in the bodies of our Solar System. We also discuss the modeling of H2O and the difficulties found in the interpretation of the data, the need…