PhD Thesis by Aigen Li (Promotor: E.F. van Dishoeck; Advisor: J.M. Greenberg)

"Theoretical Studies of Interstellar Dust" 







Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2 September 1998
My thesis consists of 8 charpters. Each chapter is an article published in A&A or ApJ.

•  Front and title pages

• Contents


• Chapter 0: Introduction


• Chapter 1: Approaching the Interstellar Grain Organic Refractory Component (J.M. Greenberg, A. Li, et al. 1995, ApJ, 455, L177)
• Chapter 2: What Are the True Astronomical Silicates? (J.M. Greenberg & A. Li, 1996, A&A, 309, 258)
• Chapter 3: A Unified Model of Interstellar Dust (A. Li & J.M. Greenberg, 1997, A&A, 323, 566)
• Chapter 4: The Dust Extinction, Polarization, and Emission in the High Latitude Cloud toward HD 210121 (A. Li & J.M. Greenberg, 1998, A&A, 339, 591)


• Chapter 5: From Interstellar Dust to Comets: the Extended CO Source in Comet Halley (J.M. Greenberg & A. Li, 1998, A&A, 332, 374)
• Chapter 6: From Interstellar Dust to Comets: Infrared Emission from Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) (A. Li & J.M. Greenberg, 1998, ApJ, 498, L83)
• Chapter 7: The Dust Properties of a Short Period Comet: Comet Borrelly (A. Li & J.M. Greenberg, 1998, A&A, 338, 364)
• Chapter 8: A Comet Dust Model for the Beta Pictoris Disk (A. Li & J.M. Greenberg, 1998, A&A, 331, 291)


• Summary in Dutch
• Curriculum Vitae
• Acknowledgements