Millimeter Astronomy Saas-Fee Advanced Course 38. Swiss Society for

The millimeter and sub-millimeter wavebands are unique in astronomy in containing several thousands of spectral lines of molecules as well as the thermal continuum spectrum of cold dust. They are the only bands in the electromagnetic spectrum in which we

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T. L. Wilson Stéphane Guilloteau

Millimeter Astronomy

Saas-Fee Advanced Course 38

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T. L. Wilson Stéphane Guilloteau •

Millimeter Astronomy Saas-Fee Advanced Course 38 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy Edited by Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky and Daniel Pfenniger

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Authors T. L. Wilson Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Bonn Germany Stéphane Guilloteau Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux Université Bordeaux 1 Bordeaux France

Volume Editors Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky Observatoire de Genève Université de Genève Sauverny Switzerland Daniel Pfenniger Observatoire de Genève Université de Genève Sauverny Switzerland

This Series is edited on behalf of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy: Société Suisse d’Astrophysique et d’Astronomie, Observatoire de Genève, ch. des Maillettes 51, CH-1290 Sauverny, Switzerland. Cover illustration: A montage of ALMA Antennae, Credit ESO, with Barnard 150 Dark Nebula in Cepheus, http://www.astrogb.com/b150.htm, © Giovanni Benintende, Reproduced with permission

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Preface

The millimeter (mm) and sub-millimeter (sub-mm) wavebands are unique in astronomy in containing more than 1000 spectral lines of molecules as well as the thermal continuum spectrum of cold dust. They are the only bands in the el