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Stellar masers, circumstellar envelopes and supernova remnants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2007

Athol J. Kemball*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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This paper reviews recent advances in the study or circumstellar masers and masers found toward supernova remnants. The review is organized by science focus area, including the astrophysics of extended stellar atmospheres, stellar mass-loss processes and outflows, late-type evolved stellar evolution, stellar maser excitation and chemistry, and the use of stellar masers as independent distance estimators. Masers toward supernova remnants are covered separately. Recent advances and open future questions in this field are explored.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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