Nearby Molecular Clouds: Proceedings of a Specialized Colloquium of the Eighth IAU European Regional Astronomy Meeting Toulouse, September 17 – 21, 1984: Lecture Notes in Physics, cartea 237

A synthetic view at large scale of local molecular clouds.- Molecular line observations of nearby dark clouds at high galactic latitudes.- Comparison of optical appearance and infrared emission of extended dust clouds.- Correlations between NH3 (1.1) and far IR emission.- Correlation of high galactic latitude HI and FIR emission and warm dust in the neutral interstellar medium.- Galactic molecular clouds: Their size and mass distribution.- The small scale structure and chemistry of nearby molecular clouds.- Dissipation of kinetic energy in clumpy magnetic clouds.- Large and small scale structures of molecular clouds in the taurus perseus complex.- Chemical evolution in local interstellar molecular clouds.- C18—O and optical observations of the Taurus cloud in front of 3C 111.- Radio continuum and molecular line studies of dense cores in dark clouds.- Star counts and ammonia observations in the central Taurus region.- Frosts in the p Oph molecular cloud.- Observations of 12CO data and models for the dark cloud L183.- Dense cores and star formation in nearby dark clouds.- IRAS observations of star formation in nearby molecular clouds.- Star formation in the centrally condensed core of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud.- Warm dust in the RCRA molecular cloud.- On the possible contribution of the frustrated total reflection in the composite dielectric grains to the extinction and polarization of light.- The coexistence of spectral features of dust particles and of ionized gas as found in IRAS data.- CO observations of high velocity gas around S187.- CO and 13CO observations of HI absorption clouds.- The stellar content of nearby clouds — T Tauri stars.- Mass outflows from T Tauri stars and their interaction with the environment.- An overview on herbig-haro objects.- Theenvelopes of the Herbig Ae/Be stars.- VLA observations of point sources in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud.- Upper limits to coronal emission from X-ray detected T Tauri stars.- Rotation and X-ray activity in T Tauri stars.- Supersonic CO flows, H2O masers and HH objects in NGC 1333 and NGC 7129.- VLA observations of the OH and H2O masers in the young star cluster NGC 2071 IR.- Two ZAMS AOV stars in CHA I.