IAU Symposium 242
Astrophysical masers and their environments
Alice Springs, 12 to 16 March 2007
Talks and poster papers
The meeting included around 60 oral presentations and 70 poster papers, as summarised in the table below. Column 6 gives a link to the paper if the file(s) has been made available.
Columns 7 and 8 indicate whether the editors have received the files and 'consent to publish' forms for the full conference proceedings.
For information on how to prepare your paper see the Conference proceedings web page. Please send the individual text (.tex) and image (.eps) files for the paper, and the postscript (.ps) file for the full paper to the editors, Jessica Chapman and Willem Baan.
Last updated on 20 July 2007. Current count is 119 of 128 expected papers have been received. Remaining papers are needed NOW! If you still plan to submit your paper you MUST let us know. We are now well into the editing of the proceedings and will not delay publication for late papers.
Please send the consent to publish form if you haven't done that already.
Ref Number | Participant surname | Participant firstname | Affiliation | Title | Web Link | .tex, .eps, .ps files received? | Consent form received? |
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Session 1: Maser theory | |||||||
101 | Elitzur | Moshe | University of Kentucky | Maser Theory | pdf (775 KB) gamma_81.wmv (movie: 2.7 MB) spine_movie.wmv (movie: 3.0 MB)) | Yes | |
102 | Gray | Malcolm | University of Manchester | Tracing pumping routes in OH | pdf (101 KB) | Yes | Yes |
103 | Strelnitski | Vladimir | Maria Mitchell Observatory | Masers as probes of supersonic turbulence | Yes | No | |
Session 1: Posters | |||||||
104 | Mendoza | Eduardo | Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica | Influence of correlated turbulence on the shape of a spectral line. The analytical approach | pdf (341 KB) | Yes | Yes |
105 | Pratap | Preeti | MIT Haystack Observatory | Short-term Variability in Class I Methanol Masers | Yes | Yes | |
Session 2: Polarisation and magnetic fields | |||||||
201 | Vlemmings | Wouter | Jodrell Bank Observatory | Polarization and magnetic fields | pdf (14.5 MB) | Yes | Yes |
202 | Crutcher | Richard | University of Illinois | Magnetic fields in the non-masing ISM | pdf (819 KB) | Yes | Yes |
203 | Han | JinLin | National Astronomical Observatories | Magnetic fields of our Galaxy on large-scales and small scales | pdf (2.2 MB) | Yes | Yes |
Session 2: Posters | |||||||
204 | Bains | Indra | Swinburne University of Technology | Maser polarimetry with the Long Baseline Array: The star forming region G340.054-0.24 | Yes | Yes | |
205 | Zhou | Jianjun | Urumqi Observatory | EVN polarization observation toward SNR W44 | pdf (194 KB) | Yes | Yes |
206 | Horiuchi | Shinji | Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex | Tidbinbilla Radio Telescopes: powerful tools for maser science in southern hemisphere | Yes | No | |
Session 3: Masers and star formation | |||||||
301 | Fish | Vincent | NRAO, Socorro | Masers and star formation | pdf (2.2 MB) | Yes | Yes |
302 | Sobolev | Andrej | Ural State University | How do methanol masers manage to appear in the youngest star vicinities and isolated molecular clumps | pdf (10.2 MB) | Yes | Yes |
303 | Pestalozzi | Michele | University of Herfordshire | Methanol masers as tools to study high-mass star formation. | pdf (1.4 MB) | Yes | Yes |
304 | Goedhart | Sharmila | Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory | Periodic variations in 6.7-GHz methanol masers | pdf (2.2 MB) | Yes | Yes |
305 | de Buizer | James | Gemini Observatory | The infrared environments of methanol and water masers associated with star formation | pdf (1.4 MB) | Yes | |
306 | Araya | Esteban | New Mexico Tech & National Radio Astronomy Observatory | Formaldehyde masers in the Galaxy | pdf (5.2 MB) | Yes | Yes |
307 | Hill | Tracey | Leiden Observatory | Profiling Young Massive Stars | pdf (836 KB) | Yes | Yes |
308 | Longmore | Steven | University of New South Wales | The molecular environment of massive star forming cores associated with Class II methanol maser emission. | Yes | Yes | |
309 | Goss | Miller | NRAO | Intrinsic Short Term Variability in W3 (OH) and W49N Hydroxyl Masers | pdf (103 KB) | Not publishing | Not publishing |
310 | Moscadelli | Luca | INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri | Massive Star-Formation in the Region G24.78+0.08 studied by means of Maser VLBI and Thermal Interferometric Observations | pdf (3.7 MB) | Yes | Yes |
Session 3: Posters | |||||||
311 | Araya | Esteban | New Mexico Tech & National Radio Astronomy Observatory | Variability Study of the H2CO 6cm Maser in IRAS18566+040 | pdf (9.9 MB) | Yes | Yes |
312 | Blaszkiewicz | Leszek | University of Warmia and Mazury | The variability of 12.2 and 6.7 GHz methanol masers | Yes | Yes | |
313 | Breen | Shari | University of Tasmania | A search for water masers within the G333.2-0.6 giant molecular cloud | Yes | Yes | |
314 | de Gregorio- Monsalvo | Itziar | European Southern Observatory | A sensitive survey for water masers towards Bok globules | Yes | Yes | |
315 | Doi | Akihiro | Yamaguchi University | Japanese VLBI Network observations of 6.7-GHz methanol masers I. Array | Yes | Yes | |
316 | Gaylard | Michael | Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory | Tick Tock - The 12.2 GHz methanol masers in G9.62-0.20 | pdf (1.2 MB) | Yes | Yes |
317 | Goddi | Ciriaco | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | VLBI observations of H2O and CH3OH masers in two high-mass young stellar objects | pdf (1.6 MB) | Yes | Yes |
318 | Harvey-Smith | Lisa | Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe | Discovery of polarized 6.7-GHz methanol masers in DR21/W75 | jpg (1.1 MB, increase browser view size) | Yes | Yes |
319 | Harvey-Smith | Lisa | Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe | Polarization of 6.0-Ghz OH masers in W3(OH) | jpg (1.1 MB, increase browser view size) | Yes | Yes |
320 | Hirota | Tomoya | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan | Astrometry of H$_{2}$O maser sources in nearby molecular clouds with VERA | Yes | Yes | |
321 | Hofner | Peter | New Mexico Tech | The 44 GHz CH3OH Maser Line in Massive Star Forming Regions | Yes | ||
322 | Hutawarakorn Kramer | Busaba | National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) | LBA observations of the OH masers in the star-forming region OH330.953-0.182 | Yes | Yes | |
323 | Matthews | Lynn | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Probing the dynamical evolution of Orion Source I on 10-100 AU scales using SiO masers | Yes | Yes | |
324 | Migenes | Victor | Universidad de Guanajuato | Low mass star formation in Bright Rimmed Clouds | Yes | Yes | |
325 | Migenes | Victor | Universidad de Guanajuato | An OH maser flare with a strong magnetic field (poster paper on behalf of Slava Slysh) | Yes | Yes | |
326 | Moellenbrock | George | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | A Precise Distance to IRAS 00420+5530 via H2O Maser Parallax with the VLBA | Yes | Yes | |
327 | Sato | Mayumi | National Astronomical Observaotry of Japan | Absolute proper motions of water masers in NGC 281 measured with VERA | Yes | Yes | |
328 | Smits | Derck | University of South Africa | A search for 1720 MHz OH masers towards Herbig-Haro objects | Yes | Yes | |
329 | Sugiyama | Koichiro | Yamaguchi University | The Japanese VLBI Network observations of 6.7 GHz methanol masers II. Results. | Yes | Yes | |
330 | Torstensson | Kalle | Leiden Observatory/JIVE | Where methanol masers spring | Yes | Yes | |
331 | Trinidad | Miguel Angel | Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Guanajuato | Water Maser and Radio Continuum Emission Toward IRAS 23139+5939 | Yes | ||
332 | van der Walt | Johan | Unit for Space Physics, North-West University | Inferences from the kinematics of 6.7 GHz methanol masers | pdf (67KB) | Not publishing | Not publishing |
333 | Voronkov | Maxim | Australia Telescope National Facility | The Australia Telescope campaign to study southern class I methanol masers | pdf (313 KB) | Yes | Yes |
334 | Wong- McSweeney | Daniel | University of Manchester | Selected Sources From The Galactic Methanol Maser Survey, l = 20 to 40 degrees | Yes | Yes | |
335 | Alakoz | Alex | Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute | Spectral and VLBI-structure monitoring of OH-maser flare in W75N | Yes | Yes | |
336 | Green | James | Jodrell Bank Observatory | A MERLIN study of 6.7 GHz Methanol and 6 GHz OH in ON1 | Yes | Yes | |
337 | Bartkiewicz | Anna | G23.657-0.127, what can we learn from a perfect methanol maser source? | Yes | Yes | ||
338 | Szymczak | Marian | Torun Centre for Astronomy | Toward constraining of methanol maser environments [Give as poster] | Yes | Yes | |
Session 4: Galactic maser surveys | |||||||
401 | Caswell | James | Australia Telescope National Facility | Recent maser surveys | pdf (525 KB) | Yes | Yes |
402 | Deguchi | Shuji | Nobeyama Radio Observatory, NAOJ | SiO Maser Survey of Evolved Stars in the Galaxy: Various Environments of Maser Sources | pdf (607 KB) | Yes | Yes |
403 | Pandian | Jagadheep | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy | The Arecibo methanol maser Galactic plane survey | pdf (1.2 MB) | Yes | Yes |
404 | Ellingsen | Simon | University of Tasmania | Investigating high-mass star formation through maser surveys | pdf (16.2 MB) | Yes | Yes |
405 | Green | James | Jodrell Bank Observatory | The Methanol Multibeam survey | pdf (1.2 MB) | Yes | Yes |
406 | Brand | Jan | INAF-Istituto di Radioastronomia | A 20-year H$_2$O maser monitoring program with the Medicina telescope | pdf (13.4 MB) | Yes | Yes |
Session 4: Posters | |||||||
407 | De Witt | Alet | University of South Africa | Groundstate OH masers associated with Herbig-Haro objects | Combined with 328 | See 328 | |
408 | Esimbek | Jarken | Urumqi Observatory | Study on the large-scale distribution and physical properties of massive star forming regions in the Milky way | Yes | Yes | |
409 | Forster | Richard | UC Berkeley, Hat Creek Radio Observatory | Multiple Masers in Massive Star-Forming Regions | pdf (7.0 MB) | Yes | No |
410 | McDonnell | Korinne | Macquarie University | A search for OH 6 GHz maser emission towards southern supernova remnants | Yes | Yes | |
411 | Mochizuki Suzuyama | Nanako | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | Survey of outer Galaxy molecular lines associated with water masers | |||
412 | Sunada | Kazuyoshi | Nobeyama Radio Observatory | Nobeyama water maser survey | |||
415 | Umemoto | Tomofumi | Nobeyama Radio Observatory | Mm wavelength methanol masers survey towards massive star forming regions | Yes | Yes | |
416 | Walsh | Andrew | James Cook University | HOPS: A survey for water masers in the southern Galaxy. | Not publishing | Not publishing | |
Session 5: Stellar masers, circumstellar wiinds and supernova remnants | |||||||
501 | Kemball | Athol | University of Illinois | Stellar masers, circumstellar envelopes and supernova remnants | Yes | ||
502 | Wittkowski | Markus | European Southern Observatory | The Mira variable S Ori: SiO maser shells related to the stellar photosphere, the molecular layers, and the dust shell at three epochs | pdf (4.9 MB) | Yes | Yes |
503 | Humphreys | Roberta | University of Minnesota | The hypergiant maser sources: episodic mass loss, convective activity and magnetic fields | pdf (696 KB) | Yes | |
504 | Jones | Terry | University of Minnesota | The 3D Morphology of the ejecta surrounding VY Canis Majoris | pdf (1.0 MB) | Yes | Yes |
505 | Richards | Anita | Jodrell Bank Observatory | The story of red supergiant winds written in water | pdf (1.5 MB) | Yes | No |
506 | Nakashima | Jun-ichi | ASIAA | SiO maser observations of a wide dust-temperature range sample | pdf (719 KB) | Yes | Yes |
507 | Bujarrabal | Valentin | Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, | The study of the close environments of evolved stars from SiO masers | pdf (988 KB) | Yes | Yes |
508 | Imai | Hiroshi | Kagoshima University | Stellar molecular jets traced by maser emission | pdf (194 KB) avi (movie) (17.2 MB) | Yes | Yes |
509 | Chapman | Jessica | Australia Telescope National Facility | A search for water maser emission from post-AGB stars: Discovery of three high-velocity sources | pdf (819 KB) | ||
510 | Gomez | Yolanda | Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica | Maser emission in planetary nebulae | pdf (1.3 MB) | Yes | Yes |
511 | Brogan | Crystal | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | OH (1720 MHz) masers: Signposts of supernova remnant/molecular cloud Interactions | pdf (2.7 MB) | Yes | Yes |
512 | Hewitt | Jack | Northwestern University | OH 1720 MHz maser emission from supernova remnants | Yes | Yes | |
Session 5: Posters | |||||||
513 | Chen | Xi | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory | VLBI studies of SiO masers around VX Sagitarii | Yes | Yes | |
514 | Cho | Se-Hyung | Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute | Observations of SiO J=2-1 and J=3-2 Masers toward Evolved Stars with the TRAO 14m Telescope | Yes | Yes | |
515 | Engels | Dieter | Hamburger Sternwarte | Detection of Post-AGB cores in 'non-variable' OH/IR stars | Not publishing | Not publishing | |
516 | Engels | Dieter | Hamburger Sternwarte | A database of circumstellar OH masers | Yes | Yes | |
517 | Engels | Dieter | Hamburger Sternwarte | Variations of masers in circumstellar shells on the timescale of decades | pdf (635 KB) | Yes | Yes |
518 | He | Jinhua | Insitute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica | Infrared OH absorption lines in OH 1612MHz maser sources. | Yes | Yes | |
519 | Kamohara | Ryuichi | Mizusawa VERA Observatory, NAOJ | VLBI phase-referencing observation of SiO masers toward R Aqr | pdf (440 KB) | Yes | |
520 | McAlpine | Kim | Rhodes University | A map of OH maser emission from the proto-Planetary Nebula OHPN9 | Yes | Yes | |
521 | Nakagawa | Akihura | Kagoshima University | VLBI Monitoring of Mira variables with VERA | pdf (455 KB) | Yes | Yes |
522 | Richter | Laura | Rhodes University | A VLBI Polarisation Study of SiO masers towards VY CMa | Yes | Yes | |
523 | Rudnitskij | Georgij | Sternberg Astronomical Institute | Twenty-six-year monitoring of water masers | pdf (480 KB) | Yes | Yes |
524 | Soria Ruiz | Rebeca | Joint Insitute for VLBI in Europe | HCN and SiO maser emission in Carbon and Oxygen AGB stars | Yes | Yes | |
525 | Tafoya | Daniel | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Water masers in young planetary nebulae | Yes | Yes | |
526 | Wardle | Mark | Macquarie University | Collisional excitation of OH (6049 MHz) masers in SNR - molecular cloud interactions | Yes | Yes | |
527 | Desmurs | Jean-Francois | Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid | VLBA H$_2$O and SiO maser observations in the pPN OH231.8+4.2 | Yes | ||
528 | Imai | Hiroshi | Kagoshima University | A collimated jet and an infalling-rotating disk in G192.16-3.84 traced by water maser emission | Yes | Yes | |
529 | Vlemmings & van Langevelde | Wouter & Huib | JIVE Dwingeloo | Improving the parallaxes of OH bearing Miras | pdf (1.4MB) | Yes | Yes |
530 | Desmurs | Jean-Francois | Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid | Discrete survey of 5-cm OH emission from planetary and proto-planetary nebulae. | Yes | ||
531 | Szymczak | Marian | Torun Centre for Astronomy | Outburst in OH17.7-2.0 | Yes | Yes | |
Session 6: Masers, Galactic structure and the Galactic Centre | |||||||
601 | Reid | Mark | Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Masers as probes of Galactic structure | pdf (1.9 MB) | Yes | |
602 | Habing | Harm | Leiden Observatory | Maser stars in the galactic bar | Yes | ||
603 | Honma | Mareki | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan | Galactic rotation measurements based on H2O maser astrometry with VERA | pdf (1.1 MB) | Yes | Yes |
604 | Yusef-Zadeh | Farhad | Northwestern University | Masers as probes of interacting supernova remnants and massive star formation in the Galactic Center region | pdf (MB) | Yes | |
Session 6: Posters | |||||||
605 | Xu | Ye | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie | Trigonometric parallax towards some massive star forming regions | Yes | No | |
606 | Gonzalez Fernandez | Carlos | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias | TCS-CAIN: Spectro-photometric survey of the Galactic plane | Yes | Yes | |
607 | Asaki | Yosiharu | Institute of Space and Astronautical Science | Annual parallax measurements of S Persei with water vapor masers | Yes | Yes | |
Session 7: Masers in AGN environments | |||||||
701 | Greenhill | Lincoln | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Masers in AGN Environments | Yes | No | |
702 | Kameno | Seiji | Kagoshima University | Scanning accreting matter in the active galaxy NGC 1052 | |||
703 | Moran | Jim | Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | The Structure of the Accretion Disk in NGC4258 Derived from Observations of its Water Vapor Masers | Yes | Yes | |
704 | Braatz | James | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | Precision Cosmology with H2O Megamasers: Measuring Distances to NGC 6323 and UGC 3789 | Yes | Yes | |
Session 7: Posters | |||||||
705 | Braatz | James | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | An atlas of extragalactic water vapor masers | Yes | ||
706 | Castangia | Paola | INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari | Investigating the nature of low luminoisty extragalactic H2O masers | Yes | Yes | |
707 | Sawada-Satoh | Satoko | ASIAA | Coincidence of Relative Position between Water Maser Gas and a Dense Plasma Torus in NGC 1052 | Yes | Yes | |
708 | Tarchi | Andrea | INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari | The nuclear environment of the water megamaser radio galaxy 3C403 | Yes | Yes | |
709 | Uscanga | Lucero | Centro de Radioastronomia y Astrofisica - UNAM | Position-Velocity Diagrams for the Maser Emission coming from a Keplerian Ring | Yes | Yes | |
710 | Yamauchi | Aya | University of Tsukuba | Water-vapor maser disk at the nucleus of the Seyfert 2 IC 2560 | Yes | Yes | |
711 | Zhang | Jiang-shui | Center for astrophysics, Guangzhou University | Statistical properties of extragalactic H2O masers | Yes | Yes | |
Session 8: Megamaser and starburst activity | |||||||
801 | Darling | Jeremy | University of Colorado | Masers in starburst galaxies | Yes | Yes | |
802 | Argo | Megan | Jodrell Bank Observatory | OH main line masers in the M82 starburst | pdf (969 KB) | Yes | Yes |
803 | Lonsdale | Colin | MIT Haystack Observatory | OH emission and absorption associated with supernovae in Arp 220 | |||
804 | Baan | Willem | ASTRON | Understanding the Arp 220 system | Yes | ||
805 | Henkel | Christian | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie | OH and H_2O megamasers (Will not publish this) | Not publishing | Not publishing | |
Session 9: Diagnostics and interpretation in extragalactic environements | |||||||
901 | Pihlstrom | Ylva | University of New Mexico | OH megamasers as extragalactic diagnostics | Yes | Yes | |
902 | Spaans | Marco | Kapteyn Institute, Groningen | Molecular diagnostics of ULIGs (Given as contributed paper by Baan on behalf of Marco Spaans) | Yes | ||
903 | Parra | Rodrigo | Onsala Space Observatory | Modelling of clumpy OH maser emission in starbursts (given as contributed talk in place of John Conway) | Yes | Yes | |
904 | Loenen | Edo | Kapteyn Astronomical Institute | Infrared and molecular properties of OH megamasers | pdf (801 KB) | Yes | Yes |
905 | Robishaw | Tim | University of California, Berkeley | The discovery of extragalactic magnetic fields in OH megamasers | Yes | ||
Session 10: New mm and sub-mm masers | |||||||
1001 | Humphreys | Liz | Harvard Center for Astrophysics | Millimeter and submillimeter masers | Yes | Yes | |
1002 | Hunter | Todd | NRAO | 658 GHz water masers with the submillimeter array | pdf (1.2 MB) | Yes | Yes |
1003 | Patel | Nimesh | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Submillimetre Array observations of 321 GHz water maser emission in Cepheus-A | pdf (1.4 MB) ppt (with notes) (1.7 MB) | Yes | Yes |
Session 10: Posters | |||||||
1004 | Weintroub | Jonathon | Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | SMA imaging of the hydrogen recombination line masers in MWC349 | pdf (163 KB) | Yes | |
Session 11: Future facilities and conference summary | |||||||
1101 | Menten | Karl | Max -Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie | Exciting maser science with new instruments in the near and the far future | |||
1102 | Green | Anne | University of Sydney | Opportunities for maser studies with the Square Kilometre Array | pdf (1.0 MB) | Yes | |
1103 | Wootten | Alwyn | National Radio Astronomy Observatory/ALMA | ALMA's view of maser emission | pdf (1.9 MB) | Yes | No |
1105 | Reid | Mark | Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Conference Summary | pdf (1.4MB) | Yes | |
Session 11: Posters | |||||||
1104 | Murata | Yasuhiro | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) | Next generation space VLBI project: VSOP (Given on his behalf by Nanako Mochizuki) | Yes | No | |
1106 | Kobayashi | Hideyuki | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan | East Asian VLBI Network | |||
1107 | Phillips | Chris | ATNF | ASAP | Not publishing | Not publishing | |
1108 | Zheng | Xingwu | Nanjing University | VLBI in China |