Observational Investigations of Cold Gas in Galaxies II

这项研究延续了纳普博士对星际介质的创造性和受人尊敬的研究。最近观测灵敏度的提高，导致在椭圆星系中探测到少量的冷气体和尘埃，提供了研究星际介质的机会，这种情况与银河系盘中的情况完全不同。这些观测之后将进行红外尘埃研究，核活动燃料的研究，以及我们银河系盘中原子和分子气体的垂直结构的研究。

This study continues Dr. Knapp's creative and respected studies of the intersterllar medium. Recent improvements in observationalsensitivity, leading to the detection of small amounts of cold gas and dust in elliptical galaxies, offer the opprotunity to study the interstellar medium in situations quite different from that in the galactic disk. These observations will be followed up by infrared dust studies, investigations of the fueling of nuclear activity, and studies of the vertical structure of atomic and molecular gas in the disk of our own galaxy.