List of works by Charles Hard Townes

10-μm Heterodyne Stellar Interferometer

scientific article

A New Experimental Test of Special Relativity

scientific article published in Nature

A Search for the 110 larr 111 Transition of Interstellar Thioformaldehyde

scientific article published in Science

A systematic change with time in the size of Betelgeuse

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Adaptive optics and aperture masking: a comparison

scholarly article published 20 October 2004

An infrared upconverter for astronomical imaging

Asymptotic Giant Branch and Supergiant Stellar Diameters in the Mid‐Infrared

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

At what wavelengths should we search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence?

scientific article published on February 1983

Charge Distribution in Nuclei from X-Ray Fine Structure

scientific article published on 01 March 1952

Combining high spectral and spatial resolution in the mid-infrared

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Detection of N H 3 Molecules in the Interstellar Medium by Their Microwave Emission

scientific article

Detection of Water in Interstellar Regions by its Microwave Radiation

scientific article published in Nature

Detection of interstellar OH in the far-infrared

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Dynamics and Characteristics of the Self-Trapping of Intense Light Beams

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

First Surface‐resolved Results with the Infrared Optical Telescope Array Imaging Interferometer: Detection of Asymmetries in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

From the maser to the laser. Interview by Joerg Heber

scientific article published in May 2010

Further Aspects of the Theory of the Maser

scientific article

Further Microwave Emission Lines and Clouds of Ammonia in our Galaxy

scientific article published in Nature

High‐Resolution Imaging of Dust Shells by Using Keck Aperture Masking and the IOTA Interferometer

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Imaging the Disk around the Luminous Young Star LkHα 101 with Infrared Interferometry

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Infrared Spatial Interferometer

Infrared and Optical Masers

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Interferometric Observations of IRC +10011 and IRC +10420 in the Mid‐Infrared

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Interstellar Ammonia

scholarly article

Interstellar and Interplanetary Communication by Optical Masers

Interstellar and Interplanetary Communication by Optical Masers

Interstellar molecules and dense clouds

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Isotopic Abundances and Their Variations within the Galaxy

scientific article published on 01 May 1974

Making waves

scientific article published in November 2004

Mid‐Infrared Interferometry on Spectral Lines. I. Instrumentation

scholarly article

Mid‐Infrared Interferometry on Spectral Lines. II. Continuum (Dust) Emission around IRC +10216 and VY Canis Majoris

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Mid‐Infrared Interferometry on Spectral Lines. III. Ammonia and Silane around IRC +10216 and VY Canis Majoris

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Molecular Microwave Oscillator and New Hyperfine Structure in the Microwave Spectrum of N H 3

scientific article

Multiple Dust Shells and Motions around IK Tauri as Seen by Infrared Interferometry

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Near‐ and Mid‐Infrared Subarcsecond Structure of the Dusty Symbiotic Star R Aquarii

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

New Experimental Test of Special Relativity

scientific article

Nobel laureates' letter to President Bush

Nonspherical Structures and Temporal Variations in the Dust Shell of o Ceti Observed with a Long Baseline Interferometer at 11 microns

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Nonuniform Dust Outflow Observed around Infrared Object NML Cygni

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Nuclear Quadrupole Effects and Electronic Structure of Molecules in the Solid State

OPTICAL MASERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE.

scientific article

Obituary: Theodore H. Maiman (1927-2007).

scientific article published in June 2007

Observation of a Burst of High-Velocity Dust from α Herculis

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Optical masers and their possible applications to biology

scientific article

Optical path length fluctuations in the atmosphere

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Possible Discovery of the 70 Micron H[TINF]3[/TINF]O[TSUP]+[/TSUP] [FORMULA][F]4[SUP]-[/SUP][INF]3[/INF]→3[SUP]+[/SUP][INF]3[/INF][/F][/FORMULA] Transition in Orion BN-IRc2

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Precision Measurements of the Diameters of α Orionis and ο Ceti at 11 Microns

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Production of Coherent Radiation by Atoms and Molecules

scientific article published on 01 August 1965

Proper Motions of Dust Shells Surrounding NML Cygni

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Quantum electronics, and surprise in development of technology: the problem of research planning

scientific article published on 01 February 1968

Report to The American Physical Society of the study group on science and technology of directed energy weapons

scientific article

Science, technology, and invention: Their progress and interactions

scientific article published on December 1983

Self-Trapping of Optical Beams

scientific article

Sparse-aperture adaptive optics

Spatial heterodyne interferometry of VY Canis Majoris, Alpha Orionis, Alpha Scorpii, and R Leonis at 11 microns

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spectra, Variability, Size, and Polarization of H2O Microwave Emission Sources in the Galaxy

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Stark Effect in Rapidly Varying Fields

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Status and progress on the upgraded infrared spatial interferometer

Techniques for measuring phase closure at 11 microns

Test of Special Relativity or of the Isotropy of Space by Use of Infrared Masers

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The Asymmetric Dust Environment of IK Tauri

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Berkeley Infrared Spatial Interferometer: A Heterodyne Stellar Interferometer for the Mid‐Infrared

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Keck aperture masking experiment: spectro-interferometry of three Mira variables from 1.1 to 3.8 {mu}m

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Maser—New Type of Microwave Amplifier, Frequency Standard, and Spectrometer

scientific article

The nucleus of our Galaxy

The present status of microwave spectroscopy

scientific article published on 01 November 1952