Stellar collisions, mergers an their consequences : a symposium in celebration of the opening of the Rose Center for Earth and Space and the newly rebuilt Hayden Planetarium at The American Museum of Natural History : proceedings of a symposium held at American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, USA, May 30-June 2, 2000 / edited by Michael M. Shara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shara, Michael M.

American Museum of Natural History.

Series:

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 263.

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 263

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stellar dynamics--Congresses.

Stellar dynamics.

Stars--Evolution--Congresses.

Stars.

Stars--Evolution.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xix, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Stellar collisions, mergers and their consequences

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, [2002]

Contents:

Stellar collisions, mergers and their consequences / M.M. Shara

Stellar encounters in crowded places / M.B. Davies

Stellar collisions and blue straggler formation / J.C. Lombardi, Jr. and F.A. Rasio

Dynamics of stellar collisions / J.E. Barnes

Hydrodynamical investigations of common envelope evolution / R.E. Taam

Runaway collisions in star clusters / S.F. Portegies Zwart ... [et al.]

Stellar collisions and the formation of massive stars / M.R. Bate

Are peculiar Wolf-Rayet stars of type WN8 Thorne-Zytkow objects? / C. Foellmi and A.F.J. Moffat

A spectroscopic search for massive Thorne-Zytkow objects / M.J. Kuchner ... [et al.]

A far-ultraviolet spectroscopic survey of the globular cluster 47 Tuc / C. Knigge ... [et al.]

Massive, collisionally produced blue stragglers in the galactic globular cluster NGC 6397 / R.A. Saffer ... [et al.]

Blue stars and binary stars in NGC 6397: case study of a collapsed-core globular cluster / A.M. Cool and A.S. Bolton

Searching for collision products in galactic globular cluster cores / F.R. Ferraro

Do stellar collisions affect stellar populations? / R.M. Rich

Connecting collisions to dynamical evolution in clusters / A. Sills

Stellar collisions and pulsar planets / B.M.S. Hansen

Helium white dwarf mergers as progeny for extreme helium stars / C.S. Jeffery and H. Saio

Stellar collisions and active galactic nuclei - an historical perspective / D.S. DeYoung

A Monte Carlo code to investigate stellar collisions in dense galactic nuclei / M. Freitag and W. Benz

Spin-up of stars by hyperbolic encounters in black hole cusps / T. Alexander and P. Kumar

Stellar collisions and mergers in the galactic center / D.F. Figer and S.S. Kim

Collisions, coalescence and collapse: general relativity in action / S.L. Shapiro

Calculating gravitational radiation from collisions / J.M. Centrella

Coalescence of double compact objects: event rates / V. Kalogera

Detectable signals from mergers of compact stars / H.-Th. Janka and M. Ruffert

Transient events from neutron star mergers / B. Paczynski

X-ray afterglows of gamma ray bursts / L. Piro

Systematic temporal and spectral analysis of 12 X-ray afterglows of gamma ray burst observed by BeppoSAX / G. Stratta and L. Piro

N-body simulation on GRAPE-6 / J. Makino

Panel discussion on observing simulations and simulating observations / P. Hut ... [et al.]

Eschatology of stellar collisions and mergers / V. Trimble.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1583811036

OCLC:

50790864