Single-dish monitoring of circumstellar water masers

Abstract

We present an overview of the long-term water maser monitoring program of a sample of late-type stars, carried out with the Medicina 32-m and Effelsberg 100-m telescopes, and describe the results in some detail. The role the SRT (Sardinia Radio Telescope) could play in this program is outlined.

6 pages. Contribution to a workshop held in Cagliari (I), Nov. 2001: "SRT: The Impact of Large Antennas on Radioastronomy and Space Science". Proceedings to be published as a special issue of the Publ. of the Italian Astronomical Society