FA. SPECTROSCOPY OF THE HEAVENS

FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1999 - 8:30AM

Room: 1153 SMITH LAB

Chair: LEWIS SNYDER, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

FA01 Invited Talk 30min8:30

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY OF THE HEAVENS.

G. WINNEWISSER, I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, D--50937, Germany.

FA02			15min9:05

THE LINEARLY POLARIZED EMISSION OF THE CO MOLECULE TOWARDS OMC-1.

JOSÉMIGUEL GIRART, RAMPRASAD RAO, RICHARD M. CRUTCHER, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, 1002 W. Green, Urbana,IL 61801.

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FA03			15min9:22

POLARIZATION OF THE SiO J=2 rightarrow

1 EMISSION IN ORION IRc2.

RAMPRASAD RAO, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, 1002 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801; RICHARD L. PLAMBECK AND MELVYN C. H. WRIGHT, Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

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FA04			15min9:39

PROPER MOTION OF SiO ``KNOTS'' IN THE L1448 MOLECULAR OUTFLOW.

JERRY M. ACORD, JOSÉMIGUEL GIRART, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green St., Urbana IL 61801.

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INTERMISSION

FA05			15min10:15

OBSERVATIONS OF FORMIC ACID TOWARD GALACTIC HOT MOLECULAR CORES.

SHENG-YUAN LIU, DAVID M. MEHRINGER AND LEWIS E. SNYDER, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois, 1002 W.Green, Urbana, IL 61801.

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FA06			15min10:32

THE MILLIMETER- AND SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE SPECTRUM OF METHYL FORMATE (HCOOCH₃).

L. C. OESTERLING, S. ALBERT, F. C. DE LUCIA, E. HERBST, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; K. V. L. N. SASTRY, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada.

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FA07			15min10:49

ROTATIONAL SPECTRA OF DIMETHYL ETHER AND ACETONE IN GROUND AND TORSIONAL EXCITED STATES UP TO 600 GHz.

P. GRONER, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110; S. ALBERT, E. HERBST, F. C. DE LUCIA, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; AND F. J. LOVAS, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Optical Technology Division, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

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FA08			15min11:06

AN ANALYSIS OF THE TORSION-ROTATION-VIBRATION ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF THE LOWEST IN-PLANE BEND AND FIRST EXCITED TORSIONAL STATE OF THE C_3V INTERNAL ROTOR C₂H₅CN.

J. C. PEARSON, HERBERT M. PICKETT, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 183-301, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109-8099; K. V. L. N. SASTRY, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3 Canada.

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FA09			15min11:23

THE EXCITATION MECHANISM WITHOUT INVERSION FOR INTERSTELLAR CLASS II 107GHz METHANOL MASERS.

HANPING LIU AND JIN SUN, Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.

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FA10	Post-deadline Abstract		15min11:40

ELECTRONIC SPECTROSCOPY OF COLD POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON CATIONS BY PHOTODISSOCIATION OF THEIR VAN DER WAALS COMPLEXES.

T. PINO, N. BOUDIN, P. BRECHIGNAC, Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.

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