The PHYSICS and Chemistry of Interstellar Molecular Clouds : mm and Sub-mm Observations in Astrophysics : Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Zermatt, Switzerland, 22-25 September 1988 to Commemorate the 600th Anniversary of Cologne and the 20th Anniversary of the Observatory

Some historical remarks....Pages 1-2
Molecular lines: Past, present, future....Pages 5-13
Galactic molecular surveys: The role of small telescopes....Pages 14-21
Mass calibration of CO surveys: New insight from IRAS....Pages 22-29
IRAS view at nearby molecular clouds....Pages 30-37
Physical conditions in dark clouds....Pages 38-44
High latitude molecular clouds and the IR cirrus....Pages 45-52
Physical conditions in molecular clouds: Sub-mm and far-IR co observations....Pages 53-59
The physical structure of star forming regions....Pages 60-68
Circumstellar envelopes....Pages 69-72
Molecular line surveys....Pages 73-80
The structure and kinematics of molecular clouds from large scale mapping of millimeter lines....Pages 81-86
The population and distribution of massive stars embedded in galactic molecular clouds....Pages 87-92
Magnetic fields in interstellar water masers....Pages 93-96
IRAS sources beyond the solar circle....Pages 97-99
The prevalence of neutral gas in massive post-main-sequence nebulae....Pages 100-103
Detection of far-infrared 13 Co line emission....Pages 104-106
Deuterated water in hot cores....Pages 107-108
Metsähovi MM-wave observations of interstellar clouds and SiO masers....Pages 109-111
Star formation in bright-rimmed globules: Evidence for radiation-driven implosion....Pages 112-113
Co observations in the direction of supernova remnants....Pages 114-116
Dense cores associated with diffuse, high-latitude molecular clouds....Pages 117-119
First results from observations of southern star forming regions with the swedish ESO submillimetre telescope....Pages 120-123
Methyl cyanide (CH 3 CN) in molecular cloud cores....Pages 124-126
CO Observations of 2 nd quadrant IRAS Sources....Pages 127-129
Dust temperature estimations for dark clouds in the taurus region deduced from correlations between 13 CO line and 100 μm infrared emission....Pages 130-132
Optically thick 13 CO emission from the orion GMC....Pages 133-135
Detection of 53 new 86 GHz SiO masers associated with IRAS point sources....Pages 136-138
The largest molecular cloud complexes in the southern milky way....Pages 139-139
Molecular outflows....Pages 143-151
Optical emission-line jets in star formation regions....Pages 152-162
The galactic center—A larger scale view....Pages 163-169
The nearby cassiopeia and cepheus molecular clouds and the existence of a close supernova remnant....Pages 170-173
H 2 2.12 μm spectroscopy and imaging of HH objects....Pages 174-177
Sulfur oxides in ρ ophiuchi cloud cores: Symptoms of star formation?....Pages 178-181
Measurement of the magnetic field in the molecular cloud B1....Pages 182-185
Iraso6277+7125: An atomic and molecular outflow source in the galactic cirrus?....Pages 186-188
The morphology of the bipolar outflow in L1551....Pages 189-191
CO outflow and global properties of the high latitude cloud L1642....Pages 192-194
Dust and gas in a high latitude cloud interacting with high velocity clouds....Pages 195-197
Recent observations of the molecular outflow source L1551 IRS5....Pages 198-200
The structure of the molecular outflow associated with HH7-11....Pages 201-203
The starforming dark cloud ε cha I: Sest * co observations....Pages 204-206
On fragmentation of dark clouds....Pages 207-209
CO in the dark clouds north of the California nebula NGC 1499....Pages 210-212
A CO survey of the giant molecular cloud complex toward Cas A....Pages 213-215
A complete CO map of the nearest molecular cloud, L1457....Pages 216-218
A survey of dark clouds near L1495....Pages 219-221
Observations of H 2 18 O at 547 GHz with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory....Pages 222-224
G159.6-18.5: A possible high galactic latitude supernova remnant....Pages 225-227
Proper motions of the oh masers in W3(OH)....Pages 228-230
The embedded objects in ε cha I cloud....Pages 231-233
Submillimeter spectroscopy of the very dense gas in star formation regions....Pages 234-235
CO survey of faint IRAS point sources....Pages 236-238
Far-infrared spectroscopy of bipolar flows....Pages 239-241
A complete co survey of the large magellanic cloud....Pages 245-252
The molecular content of galaxies....Pages 253-261
On the far-IR and sub-MM spectra of spiral galaxies....Pages 262-265
[CII] line emission from spiral galaxies....Pages 266-269
A 12 Co survey of the small magellanic cloud....Pages 270-272
MM observations of the magellanic clouds and of a few galactic molecular clouds....Pages 273-275
Giant molecular cloud complexes in irregular galaxies....Pages 276-278
Fine structure F.I.R. lines: A tool to investigate the circumstellar envelope of some young stars....Pages 279-281
Molecular cloud evolution and star formation....Pages 285-296
Magnetic fields in molecular clouds: Regulators of star formation....Pages 297-312
On the interaction between a hypersonic jet and the interstellar medium....Pages 313-317
A non-local model of line emission from molecular clouds....Pages 318-320
Diffuse reflected light from high latitude dust clouds....Pages 321-323
Laboratory spectroscopy: The rotation-torsion spectrum of carbodiimide, HNCNH....Pages 327-336
Molecular abundances in the dense interstellar and circumstellar clouds....Pages 337-343
Formation of molecules in the gas phase....Pages 344-352
Formation of molecules on grain surfaces....Pages 353-360
Circumstellar chemistry....Pages 361-367
Chemical models of hot molecular cores....Pages 368-371
Cosmic ray induced photodestruction of interstellar molecules....Pages 372-374
Ab initio calculations on molecules of astrochemical interest....Pages 375-377
Microdynamics of adsorbed polyaromatic hydrocarbons on small graphite particles....Pages 378-380
A non-circumstellar origin of the hump....Pages 381-382
Chemical pathways from atomic silicon ions to compounds of silicon....Pages 383-386
Focal plane imaging array for astronomical spectroscopy at 3MM wavelength....Pages 389-395
The U.C. Berkeley infrared spatial interferometer: Instrumentation and first results....Pages 396-399
The Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope....Pages 400-403
The 10 m submillimeter telescope (SMT)....Pages 404-407
The KOSMA observatory....Pages 408-412
Optimizing the use of telescope time....Pages 413-415
The cologne 3m radio telescope: Its associated electronics and operation....Pages 416-420
The stratospheric observatory for infrared astronomy—A 3m class airborne telescope....Pages 421-423
The receivers of the University of Cologne 3 m radio telescope....Pages 424-426
Highly precise reflectors and mirror in fibre-composite technology....Pages 427-430
The status of the IRAM telescopes....Pages 431-433
The cologne acousto-optical spectrometers....Pages 434-437
Measurements of CO in the terrestrial mesosphere....Pages 441-444