William D. Watson
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
83 Papers
361 Citations
William D. Watson is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Maser & Polarization (waves). The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 83 publications. Previous affiliations of William D. Watson include National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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Papers
Interstellar molecule reactions
TL;DR: In this article, the formation process for molecular hydrogen on the surfaces of dust grains and studies of reactions involving positive ions in the gas have been investigated, and it has been shown that a hydrogen atom is converted into an ion at approximately every collision with an interstellar dust grain.
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Wave effects in gravitational lensing of electromagnetic radiation.
Shuji Deguchi,William D. Watson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the wave effects in the gravitational lensing of electromagnetic radiation by compact objects in astrophysics are treated and the autocorrelation function of the electric field and the related frequency dependence of the radiation are emphasized, in addition to the diffraction pattern, to measure the deviations from the solutions obtained in the approximation of geometrical optics.
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A Non-Zeeman Interpretation for Polarized Maser Radiation and the Magnetic Field at the Atmospheres of Late-Type Giants
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a Kolmogorov-like power spectrum to estimate changes in the orientation of the magnetic field along the line of sight and hence of the optical axis of the medium, leading to the circular polarization observed in the radiation of the circumstellar SiO masers.
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A Non-Zeeman Interpretation for Polarized Maser Radiation and the Magnetic Field at the Atmospheres of Late-Type Giants
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a Kolmogorov-like power spectrum to estimate changes in the orientation of the magnetic field along the line of sight and hence of the optical axis of the medium.
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