Astrophysical Masers

1. Front Matter

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2. The early years of research on astronomical masers

   • Charles H. Townes

   Pages 3-11

3. On the theory of naural masers

   • Vladimir S. Strelnitski

   Pages 15-24

4. Line profiles in masers: Velocity relaxation

   • Nels Anderson, William D. Watson

   Pages 25-28

5. OH maser polarization

   • Shuji Deguchi, William D. Watson

   Pages 29-32

6. Coherence and incoherence in astronomical masers

   • Moshe Elitzur

   Pages 33-36

7. A model for polarized OH masers

   • Malcolm D. Gray

   Pages 37-40

8. Submillimeter water masers

   • Gary J. Melnick

   Pages 41-46

9. Linear and circular polarization for masers with weak zeeman splittings

   • Gerald E. Nedoluha, William D. Watson

   Pages 47-50

10. Radiative transfer in three dimensional masers

    • David A. Neufeld

    Pages 51-54

11. A special database for gas-phase compounds studied by microwave spectroscopy and radio astronomy

    • Jürgen Vogt

    Pages 55-58

12. Classification and statistical properties of H2O masers

    • R. Cesaroni, G. Comoretto, M. Felli, V. Natale, F. Palagi

    Pages 61-64

13. Observations of new submillimeter maser lines of water and methanol

    • P. A. Feldman, H. E. Matthews, T. Amano, F. Scappini, R. M. Lees

    Pages 65-66

14. The CRL 34-m radio telescope at Kashima — A new strong tool in maser research — and the first results of a 22 GHz H2O maser survey

    • Hiroshi Takaba, Takahiro Iwata, Takeshi Miyaji, Noriyuki Kawaguchi, Masaki Morimoto

    Pages 67-70

15. Molecular megamasers after ten years

    • Willem A. Baan

    Pages 73-82

16. VLBI observations of the water vapor megamaser in IC10

    • A. L. Argon, M. J. Reid, J. M. Moran, K. M. Menten, C. Henkel, L. J. Greenhill et al.

    Pages 83-86

17. Extragalactic H2O masers

    • Lincoln J. Greenhill

    Pages 87-90

18. H2O megamaser variability

    • Aubrey D. Haschick, Willem A. Baan

    Pages 91-94

19. Interstellar masers: Then and now

    • Nels Anderson, Reinhard Genzel

    Pages 97-107

20. Some interesting OH/H2O masers

    • James R. Forster

    Pages 108-111

In this volume the full range of astrophysical maser research is covered, with contributions from many of the foremost researchers in the field. The topics include masers in star-forming, circumstellar and extragalactic environments, solar system masers, newly discovered masing transitions, variability, proper-motion studies, and theory. Since this was the first ever conference devoted exclusively to astrophysical masers, these proceedings provide a reference for this field which has not previously been available. "Astrophysical Masers" will be useful both to those who wish to study the physics of masers, and to those who wish to better understand the astrophysically important regions with which they are associated.

• Maser
• Variation
• astronomy
• circumstellar shells
• galaxy
• interstellar molecules
• interstellare Moleküle
• masers
• milky way
• radio astronomy
• solar system
• spectroscopy
• star
• star formation
• telescope

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