Astrophysical masers and their environments

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Astrophysical masers, naturally occurring microwave and radio-wave emissions, provide an important tool to investigate astrophysical environments. Several thousand maser sources have been observed in the interstellar medium and star formation regions, in the expanding winds from evolved stars, in the compressed shells of supernovae remnants, in.

More than astronomers from around the world gathered in Cagliari, Sardinia, for IAU Symposium to discuss the latest findings related to masers. These proceedings summarize state of the art observations and theories pertaining to astrophysical masers and their environments, for graduate students and researchers.

Astrophysical Masers and their Environments (IAU S) Chapman, Jessica M. .C full text sources. The ADS is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under NASA Cooperative Agreement Cited by: 1. Get this from a library. Astrophysical masers and their environments: proceedings of the th [i.e.

nd] Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Alice Springs, Australia, March[Jessica Chapman; W A Baan; International Astronomical Union. Symposium]. Astrophysical masers, naturally occurring microwave and radio-wave emissions, provide an important tool to investigate astrophysical environments.

Several thousand maser sources have been observed in the interstellar medium and star formation regions, in the expanding winds from evolved stars, in the compressed shells of supernovae remnants, in comets and in the centers of galaxies. Masers are.

These proceedings summarize state of the art observations and theories pertaining to astrophysical masers and their environments, for graduate students and researchers.

As new radio telescope facilities come online, observations of masers will continue to shed light on a broad range of important astrophysical problems.

University of Manchester. Astrophysical masers have been a major theme in Dr Gray’s research career, but he has also worked in the fields of astrophysical dust, the calculation of collision cross-sections for astrophysical molecules and radiation transfer.

Cambridge Universit y Pre ss - Maser Sources in Astrophysics Malcolm. Astrophysical Masers | 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.

Astronomical masers remain an active field of research in radio astronomy and laboratory astrophysics due, in part, to the fact that they are valuable diagnostic tools for astrophysical environments which may otherwise elude rigorous quantitative study and because they may facilitate the study of conditions which are inaccessible in terrestrial.

Masers are compact, of high brightness temperature, and often display narrow spectral line widths, polarized emission and variability. Free electron-cyclotron astrophysical masers additionally : Elizabeth Humphreys. Summarizes state of the art observations and theories pertaining to astrophysical masers and their environments, for graduate students and are the microwave analogue of lasers; there are many astronomical sources of natural maser emission, including gas around forming and dying stars, and around supermassive black : Andrea Tarchi; Mark J Reid; Paola Castangia.

A megamaser is a type of astrophysical maser, which is a naturally occurring source of stimulated spectral line emission.

Megamasers are distinguished from astrophysical masers by their large isotropic sers have typical luminosities of 10 3 solar luminosities (L ☉), which is million times brighter than masers in the Milky Way, hence the prefix mega. Masers are observed at a range of scales - from comets, through star-forming clouds, to galactic nuclei - and have many astrophysical applications, for example measuring cosmological distances.

Written for postgraduate students and professional researchers in molecular astrophysics, this volume is an up-to-date survey of the theory and Cited by: Full Description: "The latest theoretical and observational advances in the exciting field of exoplanet research.

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Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables: based on a review talk presented at IAU Symposium Astrophysical masers and their environments, held at Alice Springs (Australia), MarchDo.

Astrophysical masers and their environments Proceedings IAU Symposium No. J. Chapman & W. Baan, eds. c International Astronomical Union DOI: /XX Exciting Maser Science with New Instruments – the Promise of the EVLA Karl M.

Menten Max-Planck-Institut fu¨r Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hu¨ D Masers originate in a variety of different environments and are associated with a wide variety of phenomena but they are all linked by common physics.

By bringing together astronomers who observe masers and theoreticians who investigate the physics of the masers and their environments we were able to address a broad range of astrophysical problems.

Absolute proper motions of water masers in NGC measured with VERA, astrophysical masers and their environments. Proc IAU Symp,– Google ScholarAuthor: D. Jenkins. Masers are observed at a range of scales - from comets, through star-forming clouds, to galactic nuclei - and have many astrophysical applications, for example measuring cosmological distances.

Written for postgraduate students and professional researchers in molecular astrophysics, this volume is an up-to-date survey of the theory and.

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source. Masers often have brightness temperatures of > K, and are compact compared with the scales of the astrophysical objects with which they are associated (e.g., stars, galactic nuclei). For example masers have sizes of order 10 7 m in comets, and masers in galactic cores can have scale sizes up to 10 19 m [6].

Other. The intense line emission of OH masers is a perfect tracer of regions where new stars are born aswell as of evolved stars, shedding large amounts of processed matter into the interstellar medium.

From SKA deep surveys at 18 cm, where the maser lines from the ground-state of the OH molecule arise, we predict the discovery of more than sources of stellar and interstellar origin throughout Author: Sandra Etoka, Dieter Engels, Hiroshi Imai, Joanne Dawson, Simon P.

Ellingsen, Lorant Sjouwerman, Hui.stretched by the expansion.4 The wavelengths of photons are stretched along their geodesic path from one galaxy to another.

In this consistent world picture, galaxies are like point particles, moving as a fluid in an expanding universe. The matter and energy content of the universe.