Astrophysical Masers: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Arlington, Virginia, USA, 911 March 1992 [Paperback]

In this volume the full range of astrophysical maserresearch is covered, with contributions from many of theforemost researchers in the field. The topics includemasers in star-forming, circumstellar and extragalacticenvironments, solar system masers, newly discovered masingtransitions, variability, proper-motion studies, and theory.Since this was the first ever conference devoted exclusivelyto astrophysical masers, these proceedings provide areference for this field which has not previously beenavailable. Astrophysical Masers will be useful both tothose who wish to study the physics of masers, and to thosewho wish to better understand the astrophysically importantregions with which they are associated.The early years of research on astronomical masers.- On the theory of naural masers.- Line profiles in masers: Velocity relaxation.- OH maser polarization.- Coherence and incoherence in astronomical masers.- A model for polarized OH masers.- Submillimeter water masers.- Linear and circular polarization for masers with weak zeeman splittings.- Radiative transfer in three dimensional masers.- A special database for gas-phase compounds studied by microwave spectroscopy and radio astronomy.- Classification and statistical properties of H2O masers.- Observations of new submillimeter maser lines of water and methanol.- 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.- Molecular megamasers after ten years.- VLBI observations of the water vapor megamaser in IC10.- Extragalactic H2O masers.- H2O megamaser variability.- Interstellar masers: Then and now.- Some interesting OH/H2O masers.- High resolution centimeter radio continuum and ammonia maser observations of the W51 region of star formation.- Masers in star-forming regions associated with cold, bright IRAS sources.- CH in translucent molecular clouds.- Ammonia mlC}