Astrophysical masers

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1763, 1999, Pages 3277-3298

  Gray, Malcolm ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Masers; Molecules; Radio lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347668621     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0494     Document Type: Article

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