ASTRONOMY-INSPIRED ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
CONTENTS 1 ATOMIC STRUCTURE EIGENSTATES IN THE SPHERICAL REPRESENTATION HIGH SYMMETRY OF THE HYDROGEN ATOM, SEPARATION IN PARABOLIC COORDINATES THE GROUND STATE OF HELIUM EXCITED STATES CONFIGURATION INTERACTION CONFIGURATIONS AND STATES SIMPLE SCREENING PICTURES THE THOMAS-FERMI SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD MODEL EXACT TREATMENTS: HARTREE-FOCK AND CONFIGURATION INTERACTION ATOMIC SPECTRA IN ASTRONOMY DOPPLER SHIFTS OF SPECTRAL LINES PROBLEMS 2 COUPLING OF ATOMS TO RADIATION ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF THE DIPOLE MATRIX ELEMENT SELECTION RULES MOMENTS AND SUM RULES THE GENERALIZED OSCILLATOR STRENGTH TOTAL CROSS-SECTION THE GROUND STATE OF PHOTODETACHMENT OF RADIATIVE CAPTURE PROBLEMS 3 ATOMS IN WEAK, STATIC FIELDS INTRODUCTION COUPLING TO EXTERNAL FIELDS TIME-INDEPENDENT PERTURBATION THEORY THE STARK EFFECT THE ZEEMAN EFFECT RELATIVISTIC MASS CORRECTION SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING OTHER CORRECTIONS PROBLEMS 4 ATOMS IN STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS FREE ELECTRONS IN A MAGNETIC FIELD EXCITED STATES IN A MAGNETIC FIELD BASIC HAMILTONIAN AND SPECTRUM DEGENERATE PERTURBATION THEORY IN AN LARGE-SCALE NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS QUASI-CLASSICAL JWKB ANALYSIS RYDBERG DIAMAGNETISM IN OTHER ATOMS COMPLEX ATOMS IN ULTRASTRONG FIELDS COMPLEX ATOMS IN VERY STRONG, BUT NOT ULTRASTRONG, FIELDS STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS IN ASTRONOMY PROBLEMS 5 ELECTRON CORRELATIONS QUALITATIVE PICTURE THE SPECTRUM OF HE AND EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION COULOMB POTENTIAL AND HYPERSPHERICAL HARMONICS IN SIX DIMENSIONS ADIABATIC HYPERSPHERICAL METHOD DESCRIPTION OF RESONANCES HIGH-LYING DOUBLY-EXCITED STATES AND DOUBLE IONIZATION DIELECTRONIC RECOMBINATION PROBLEMS 6 DIATOMIC MOLECULES MOLECULAR ORBITALS AND STATES OF SIMPLE DIATOMIC MOLECULES PARITY OF MOLECULAR STATES EFFECT OF NUCLEAR SPIN EXTERNAL FIELD EFFECTS ON MOLECULAR SPECTRA COLLISIONAL PROCESSES ASTROPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS PROBLEMS 7 POLYATOMIC MOLECULES BORN-OPPENHEIMER APPROXIMATION AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE ROTATION OF POLYATOMIC MOLECULES AND SPECTRA VIBRATIONS OF POLYATOMIC MOLECULES DEGENERACIES AND ROVIBRONIC COUPLINGS ASTROPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS PROBLEMS REFERENCES