Exciting maser science with new instruments the promise of the EVLA
Abstract
In the near future, the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) will allow surveys for maser sources with unprecedented sensitivity, spectral coverage and spectroscopic capabilities. In particular, comprehensive surveys for many maser species with simultaneous sensitive continuum imaging and absorption studies will give a comprehensive radio picture of star formation in the Galactic plane and elsewhere. Very efficient EVLA surveys for H2O megamasers in Active Galacic Nuclei will be possible to practically arbitrary redshifts.
- Publication:
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Astrophysical Masers and their Environments
- Pub Date:
- March 2007
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0708.3008
- Bibcode:
- 2007IAUS..242..496M
- Keywords:
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- masers;
- instrumentation: high angular resolution;
- instrumentation: interferometers;
- surveys;
- stars: formation;
- Galaxy: structure;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, incl. 4 figures, iaus.cls, to appear the Procedings of IAU Symp. 242 (Astrophysical masers and their environments) eds. J. Chapman &