Teaching Online UdeC
This course is a general introduction
to the interstellar medium (ISM), and particularly to the physics and chemistry of the ISM.
It aims to introduce how the ISM is organized,
how it is distributed within the Galaxy, and how it dynamically evolves.
The concepts presented during the lectures form the basics to understand what are the
physical and chemical processes regulating the evolution of the ISM from the diffuse medium
to the dense regions where stars form.
The course is organized in 12 lectures: Introduction, Historical Overview, The Zoo of Objects,
the Milky Way ISM, Collisions, the ISRF, the interstellar dust, the interstellar chemistry, thermal processes (i.e.
heating and cooling), cosmic rays, and a brief introduction to molecular clouds and star formation.
Slides Class I 2021
