CO: Twenty-Five Years of Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy: Proceedings of the 170th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Tucson, Arizona, May 29–June 5, 1995

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Present and Future CO Surveys....Pages 3-10
CO in the Milky Way....Pages 11-18
A Molecular Worm in Scutum....Pages 19-21
Molecular Clouds Observed with the Egret Gamma-Ray Telescope....Pages 22-24
CO and the Multiphase ISM....Pages 25-32
The Ursa Major Molecular Clouds....Pages 33-35
FCRAO CO Survey of the Outer Galaxy....Pages 36-38
The CO 2-1/1-0 Ratio....Pages 39-46
Mapping Dust Extinction in Molecular Clouds....Pages 47-49
On the Fractal Structure of Molecular Clouds....Pages 50-53
The Origin and Structure of Molecular Clouds....Pages 54-56
Molecular Gas Near the Galactic Center....Pages 57-64
CO Mapping of the Inner Few Hundred Parsecs of the Galaxy....Pages 65-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Theoretical Chemistry....Pages 71-78
Observational Chemistry....Pages 79-86
CO at other Wavelengths....Pages 87-94
Millimeter-Wave Absorption Studies of the Onset of Dark-Cloud Chemistry....Pages 95-97
Galactic Carbon Monoxide Isotope Ratios....Pages 98-100
Using CO Isotopes to Probe the ISM....Pages 101-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Probing Giant Molecular Cloud Cores with Millimeter and Submillimeter Observations of C 18 O and Dust....Pages 113-115
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Velocity Coherence in Dense Cores....Pages 116-118
Structure of Molecular Clouds and Turbulence....Pages 119-127
 13 CO (6–5) in the Orion Bar: A Critical Observational Test for PDR Models....Pages 128-130
The C/CO Ratio Problem: Chemical Effects of Turbulence....Pages 131-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Turbulence and Collapse in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds....Pages 137-147
Star Formation in the Gem OB1 Molecular Cloud Complex....Pages 148-150
Protostellar and Protoplanetary Disks....Pages 151-158
350 AU Scale Circumstellar Rotating Gaseous Disk Around DM Tauri....Pages 159-161
Kinematics of Disks Around T Tauri Stars....Pages 162-164
CO Outflows from Young Stars....Pages 165-174
CO J =6–5 Observations of Protostellar Outflows....Pages 175-177
Dense and Cold Gas in the Chameleon I Cloud: CO and IRAS Observations....Pages 178-180
Surveys with Heterodyne Focal Plane Arrays At MM Wavelengths: Quarry at FCRAO....Pages 181-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Single Dishes: The Potential of Present-Day Big Dishes and the Promise of the LMT....Pages 191-198
Characteristics of the Millimeter Arrays....Pages 199-206
Increasing the Yield of Our Telescopes....Pages 207-214
Submillimeter Wavelength Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Astronomical Sources....Pages 215-217
The Submillimeter Telescope Observatory....Pages 218-220
The Large Millimeter-Wave Telescope....Pages 221-223
Future CO Observations with the JCMT....Pages 224-226
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
ODIN: A Swedish Submillimeter Wave Spectroscopy Satellite for Astronomy and Aeronomy....Pages 227-229
European Plans for a Millimetre Array....Pages 231-238
LMSA: Japanese Plans for a Large Millimeter and Submillimeter Array....Pages 239-246
New Instruments, New Science: Future Opportunities....Pages 247-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Comparative Studies of other Galaxies....Pages 257-264
The ESO/SEST Key Programme: CO in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 265-271
CO in Nearby Normal Galaxies....Pages 273-281
Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Galaxies....Pages 282-285
Star Formation and Gas Contents in Disk Galaxies: Complex Relationships....Pages 286-288
Molecular Gas in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies....Pages 289-298
Molecular Clouds and CO Emission In Low-Metallicity Galaxies....Pages 299-301
 N (H 2 )/ I CO in Galactic Bulges....Pages 302-304
Molecular Gas in Galactic Nuclei....Pages 305-313
Modeling of Molecular Emission from Centres of Galaxies....Pages 314-316
Star Formation and Dynamics of Molecular Gas In Circumnuclear Regions of Barred Galaxies....Pages 317-320
Structure of Circumnuclear Regions of AGNS: Star Formation and Dense Gas....Pages 321-323
BIMA Observations of Molecular Gas in NGC 1068....Pages 324-326
CO in High Redshift Galaxies....Pages 327-334
CO (and other) Lines from the Cloverleaf Quasar....Pages 335-337
Centaurus A: The 13 CO MAP and Molecular Line Ratios....Pages 338-340
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
CO Observations of High Redshift Galaxies with the Owens Valley Millimeter Array....Pages 341-343
CO Observations of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies, QSOS, and Powerful Radio Galaxies with the 12M Telescope....Pages 344-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
CO in the Solar System....Pages 349-357
Mass Loss in AGB Stars....Pages 359-366
Unraveling Mysteries in Late Stages of Stellar Evolution: The Enigma of the S-Type Stars....Pages 367-369
New Detections of Metal-Bearing Molecules in IRC+10216: from Chemistry to Nucleosynthesis....Pages 370-372
CO in Planetary Nebulae and Proto-Planetary Nebulae....Pages 373-381
Pre-Shock and Post-Shock Abundance Ratios of Atomic Carbon to CO in IC 443 G....Pages 382-384
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
Twenty-Five Years of CO Astronomy: Revealing the Cold Universe....Pages 387-396
Back Matter....Pages 397-511