1. Foreword

   • Yoshiaki Hagiwara
   • Willem A. Baan
   • Huib Jan van Langevelde

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 1

2. Outflow, Infall, and Rotation in High-Mass Star Forming Regions

   • Riccardo Cesaroni

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 17

3. Merlin and Puschino Observations of H₂o Masers in Outer Galactic SFR S128N

   • A. M. S. Richards
   • R. J. Cohen
   • V. A. Samodurov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 25

4. Observing Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Regions

   • Jim Cohen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 36

5. Evidence for Co-Propagation of 4765- and 1720-MHz OH Masers in Star-Forming Regions

   • A. Niezurawska
   • M. Szymczak
   • R. J. Cohen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 42

6. Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Regions: Theoretical Aspects

   • Daniele Galli

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 51

7. Vlbi Water Maser Proper Motion Measurements in Star-Forming Regions

   • J. M. Torrelles
   • N. Patel
   • L. Uscanga

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 63

8. High-Resolution Observations in B1-IRS: Ammonia, Ccs and Water Masers

   • Itziar De Gregorio-Monsalvo
   • Claire J. Chandler
   • Guillem Anglada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 70

9. The Kinematics, Physical Condition and Magnetic Field of the W3 Irs5 Region

   • Hiroshi Imai
   • Anuj P. Sarma

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 75

10. Evn Observations of H₂O Masers Towards the High-Mass Young Stellar Object in Afgl 5142

    • C. Goddi
    • L. Moscadelli
    • J. Brand

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 81

11. Gravitationally Induced Inflow in Starbursts and Agn

    • J. H. Knapen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 94

12. Feeding Monsters – A Study of Active Galaxies

    • Melanie Krips
    • Andreas Eckart
    • Thomas Bertram

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 100

13. The Qso Hosts I Zw 1 and 3C 48: Prototypes of a Merger-Driven Quasar Evolution?

    • Julia Scharwächter
    • Andreas Eckart
    • Johannes Staguhn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 106

14. H_{_2}O Megamasers: Accretion Disks, Jet Interaction, Outflows or Massive Star Formation?

    • C. Henkel
    • J. A. Braatz
    • Y. Hagiwara

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 116

15. Probing the Obscuring Medium Around Active Nuclei Using Masers: The Case of 3C 403

    • A. Tarchi
    • C. Henkel
    • L. Moscadelli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 123

16. Low-Luminosity Extra-Galactic H₂O Masers

    • Yoshiaki Hagiwara

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 130

17. Monitoring Water Masers in Star-Forming Regions

    • J. Brand
    • R. Cesaroni
    • R. Valdettaro

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 141

18. Dense Gas, Chemistry and Star Formation in Luminous Galaxies

    • Susanne Aalto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 153

19. A Molecular Ring in the Liner Ngc 5218

    • E. Olsson
    • S. Aalto
    • S. HÜttemeister

    OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 160

20. Neutral Gas in Starbursts and Active Galactic Nuclei

    • Alan Pedlar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 169

21. CO, ¹³CO, and [CI] in Galaxy Centers

    • F. P. Israel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 176

22. Chemical Evolution of Protostars

    • Michiel R. Hogerheijde

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 187

23. Model of the W3(OH) Environment Based on Data for Both Maser and “Quasi-Thermal” Methanol Lines

    • Andrei M. Sobolev
    • Edmund C. Sutton
    • Peter D. Godfrey

    OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 196

24. Long-Term Monitoring of 6.7- and 12.2-Ghz Methanol Masers

    • S. Goedhart
    • M. J. Gaylard
    • D. J. Van Der Walt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 202

25. Ultra-Compact H II Regions

    • M. G. Hoare

    OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 215

26. Maser Action in Methanol Transitions

    • Maxim Voronkov
    • Andrej Sobolev
    • Alexei Alakoz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 223

27. The Methanol Maser Emission in W51

    • C. J. Phillips
    • H. J. Van Langevelde

    OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 229

28. NGC7538 Irs1 N: Modeling a Circumstellar Maser Disk

    • M. Pestalozzi
    • M. Elitzur
    • R. Booth

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 236

29. Dense Molecular Gas Around Protostars and in Galactic Nuclei: Pdrs and Xdrs

    • Marco Spaans
    • Rowin Meijerink

    OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 248

30. Molecular Absorption in Cen a on Vlbi Scales

    • Huib Jan Van Langevelde
    • Ylva PihlstrÖm
    • Anthony Beasley

    OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 255

31. High-Resolution Acta Observations of the Circumnuclear Molecular Clouds of Ngc 4945

    • Maria R. Hunt
    • John B. Whiteoak

    OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 262

32. Megamasers: Molecular Diagnostics of the Nuclear Ism

    • Willem A. Baan
    • Hans-R. Klöckner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 275

33. Understanding Extragalactic Hydroxyl

    • Hans-Rainer KlÖckner
    • Willem A. Baan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 283

34. The Sub-Pc Scale Accretion Disk of Ngc 4258

    • E. M. L. Humphreys
    • A. L. Argon
    • J. M. Moran

    OriginalPaper Pages: 285 - 289

35. Oh Megamasers: Circumnuclear Gas in Starbursts

    • Y. M. Pihlström

    OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 296

36. Continuum Evn and Merlin Observations of Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxies

    • A. G. Polatidis
    • J. E. Conway
    • R. Parra

    OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 302

37. Molecular Gas in the Abell 262 Cluster Galaxy Ugc 1347

    • Thomas Bertram
    • Andreas Eckart
    • Johannes Staguhn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 308

38. Dense Gas Diagnostics: Maser Excitation and Variability

    • Malcolm Gray

    OriginalPaper Pages: 309 - 318

39. Spectral Line and Continuum Radiation Propagation in a Clumpy Medium

    • John Conway
    • Moshe Elitzur
    • Rodrigo Parra

    OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 324

40. A Thin Ring Model for the Oh Megamaser in Iiizw35

    • Rodrigo Parra
    • John Conway
    • Moshe Elitzur

    OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 330