Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-vsgnj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-17T04:37:29.783Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Observational studies of maser polarization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Athol Kemball
Athol Kemball*
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box 0, Socorro NM 87801, USA

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

This paper reviews observational studies of maser polarization, with particular reference to observational results reported in the intervening eight years since the last maser conference (Clegg & Nedoluha 1993). The scientific role of maser polarization observations is discussed and the theoretical interpretation of such data is considered. Recent observational results are presented for several common maser transitions, including OH, H2O, and SiO.

Type
Part 4. Polarization and Magnetic Fields
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 206: Cosmic Masers: From Protostars to Blackholes , 2002 , pp. 359 - 366
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002 

References

Abraham, Z. & Vilas Boas, J. W. S. 1994, A&A, 290, 956 Google Scholar
Barvainis, R., McIntosh, G., & Predmore, C. R. 1987, Nature, 329, 613 Google Scholar
Baudry, A., Desmurs, J. F., Wilson, T. F., & Cohen, R. J. 1997, A&A, 325, 255 Google Scholar
Baudry, A. & Diamond, P. J. 1998, A&A, 331, 697 Google Scholar
Caswell, J. L. & Vaile, R. A. 1995, MNRAS, 273, 328 Google Scholar
Clegg, A. W. & Nedoluha, G. E. 1993, Astrophysical Masers (Berlin: Springer-Verlag)Google Scholar
Davies, R. D. 1974, in Galactic Radio Astronomy, ed. Kerr, F. J. & Simonson, S. C. III (IAU), 275 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Desmurs, J. F., Baudry, A., Wilson, T. F., Cohen, R. J., & Tofani, G. 1998, A&A, 334, 1085 Google Scholar
Desmurs, J. F., Bujarrabal, V., Colomer, F., & Alcolea, J. 2000, A&A, 360, 189 Google Scholar
Elitzur, M. 1992, Astronomical Masers (Dordrecht: Kluwer)Google Scholar
Elitzur, M. 1995, ApJ, 440, 345 Google Scholar
Elitzur, M. 1996, ApJ, 457, 415 Google Scholar
Fiebig, D. & Güsten, R. 1989, A&A, 214, 333 Google Scholar
Goldreich, P., Keeley, D. A., & Kwan, J. Y. 1973, ApJ, 179, 111 Google Scholar
Hu, J. Y., Slijkhuis, S., Nguyen-Q-Rieu, , & de Jong, T. 1993, A&A, 273, 185 Google Scholar
Kemball, A. J. 1993, , Rhodes University Google Scholar
Kemball, A. J., Diamond, P. J., & Cotton, W. D. 1995, A&AS, 110, 383 Google Scholar
Kemball, A. J. & Diamond, P. J. 1997, ApJ, 481, L111 Google Scholar
Killeen, N. E. B., Staveley-Smith, L., Wilson, W. E., & Sault, R. J., 1996, MNRAS, 280, 1143 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lang, K. R. 1986, Astrophysical Formulae (Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag)Google Scholar
Leppänen, K. J., Zensus, J. A., & Diamond, P. J. 1995, AJ, 110, 2479 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leppänen, K., Liljeström, T., & Diamond, P. 1998, ApJ, 507, 909 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lis, D. C., Goldsmith, P. F., & Predmore, C. R. 1989, ApJ, 341, 823 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McIntosh, G. C., Predmore, C. R., Moran, J. M., Greenhill, L. J., Rogers, A. E. E., & Barvainis, R. 1989, ApJ, 337, 934 Google Scholar
McIntosh, G. C. & Predmore, C. R. 1993, ApJ, 404, L71 Google Scholar
Moran, J. M., Reid, M. J., Lada, C. J., Yen, J. L., Johnston, K. J., & Spencer, J. H. 1978, ApJ, 224, L67 Google Scholar
Nedoluha, G. E. & Bowers, P. F. 1992, ApJ, 392, 249 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reid, M. J., Haschick, A. D., Burke, B. F., Moran, J. M., Johnson, K. J., & Swenson, G. W. 1980, ApJ, 239, 89 Google Scholar
Reid, M. J. 1990, in Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields, ed. Beck, R. et al. (Netherlands: IAU), 21 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sarma, A. P., Troland, T. H., & Romney, J. D. 2001, ApJ, 554, L217 Google Scholar
Sault, R. J., Killeen, N. E. B., Zmuidzinas, J., & Loushin, R. 1990, ApJS. 74. 437 Google Scholar
Szymczak, M., Cohen, R. J., & Richards, A. M. S. 1998, MNRAS, 297, 1151 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Szymczak, M., Cohen, R. J., & Richards, A. M. S. 1999, MNRAS, 304, 877 Google Scholar
Thum, C. & Morris, D. 1999, A&A, 344, 923 Google Scholar
Troland, T. H. & Heiles, C. 1982, ApJ, 252, 179 Google Scholar
Watson, W. D. 1994, ApJ, 424, L37 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wiebe, D. S. and Watson, W. D. 1998, ApJ, 503, L71 Google Scholar
Zell, P. J. & Fix, J. D. 1996, AJ, 112, 252 Google Scholar
Zheng, X. W., Moran, J. M., & Reid, M. J. 2000, MNRAS, 317, 192 Google Scholar
Zheng, X., Reid, M. J., & Moran, J. M. 2000, A&A, 357, L37 Google Scholar