Exotic stars as challenges to evolution : IAU Colloquium 187 : proceedings of a colloquium held at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA, 4-8 March 2002 / edited by Christopher A. Tout and Walter Van Hamme.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Tout, Christopher A.

Van Hamme, Walter.

International Astronomical Union

Conference Name:

IAU Colloquium (187th : 2002 : Miami, Florida)

Series:

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 279.

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 279

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stars--Evolution--Congresses.

Stars.

Stars--Evolution.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xix, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Contents:

Twenty-Five Years with SS433 / Sandip K. Chakrabarti 5

X-Ray Observations of SS 433: Review and Recent Results / Taro Kotani, David Band, Eduard K. Denissyuk, Nobuyuki Kawai, Kenzo Kinugasa, Masaaki Namiki, Samar Safi-Harb, Sergei Trushkin 19

Far-Red Spectroscopy of Peculiar Stars and the GAIA Mission / Ulisse Munari 25

GAIA Survey of Galactic Eclipsing Binaries / Tomaz Zwitter 31

Three Incomprehensible Binaries / Peter P. Eggleton 37

The Massive Close Binary in the [delta] Ori A Triple System / James A. Harvin, Douglas R. Gies 47

V652 Her: Evidence that White Dwarf Mergers Really do Happen / C. Simon Jeffery 53

The Strange Story of BI Lyncis: an Extremely Helium-Rich Subdwarf with a Cool Companion / C. Simon Jeffery, Regina Aznar Cuadrado 59

A Reprise of the Properties of the Exotic Eclipsing Binary RT Lacertae / Eugene F. Milone 65

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) / Taro Kotani 73

[eta] Carinae

A Massive Star In Its Death Throes? / Roberta M. Humphreys, Kris Davidson, Nathan Smith 79

Crossing the "Yellow Void"

Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of the Post

Red Supergiant IRC+10420 / Roberta M. Humphreys, Kris Davidson, Nathan Smith 95

Interferometric Observations of [eta] Carinae - the VLTI Takes Its First Glimpse at the Central Source / Pierre Kervella, Markus Scholler, Roy van Boekel, Emmanuel di Folco, Serge Correia, Andreas Glindemann, Francesco Paresce, Andrea Richichi, Massimo Tarenghi, Markus Wittkowski 99

The Stellar Wind Geometry of [eta] Carinae / Nathan Smith, Kris Davidson, Theodore R. Gull, Kazunori Ishibashi 107

Star Clusters as Exotic Star Factories / Jarrod R. Hurley, Michael M. Shara, Christopher A. Tout 115

Toward Solving the Mysteries of the Exotic Eclipsing Binary [epsilon] Aurigae: Two Thousand years of Observations and Future Possibilities / Edward F. Guinan, Laurence E. DeWarf 121

Binaries with Invisible Massive Components / Drahomir Chochol, Pavel Mayer 143

The Interacting Binary Be Star HR 2142 / Geraldine J. Peters, Douglas R. Gies 149

Multiple Probes of the AS Cam Dynamical Problem / Walter Van Hamme, Robert E. Wilson, Rolando M. Branly 155

Fluorescence Model for AG Draconis / Walter Van Hamme, Robert E. Wilson 161

Fluorescence and Chromospheric Activity of V471 Tau / Todd R. Vaccaro, Robert E. Wilson 167

FG Sagittae / Detlef Schonberner, C. Simon Jeffery 173

Imaging Ejecta from the Final Flash Star V605 Aql / Kenneth Hinkle, Richard Joyce, Steven Ridgway, Laird Close, Thomas Lebzelter, Josef Hron, Karin Andre 187

Sakurai's Object, V605 Aql and FG Sge: An Evolutionary Sequence Revealed / Timothy M. Lawlor, James MacDonald 193

H1504+65

The Naked Stellar C/O Core of a Former Red Giant Observed with FUSE and Chandra / Klaus Werner, Thomas Rauch, Martin A. Barstow, Jeff W. Kruk 201

The [beta] Lyrae Puzzle / Albert P. Linnell 209

Magnetically Driven Warping and Precession of Accretion Disks: Implications for Exotic Stellar Variabilities / Dong Lai 215

Strange Among the Strange: The B-emission Star [gamma] Cassiopeiae / Petr Harmanec 221

V471 Tauri and Su Wt 2: The Exotic Descendants of Triple Systems? / Howard E. Bond, M. Sean O'Brien, Edward M. Sion, Dermott J. Mullan, Katrina Exter, Don L. Pollacco, Ronald F. Webbink 239

The Slow Merger of Massive Stars: Merger Types and Post-Merger Evolution / Natasha Ivanova, Philipp Podsiadlowski 245

Irradiation Effects in Compact Binaries / Martin E. Beer, Philipp Podsiadlowski 253

CW Leonis, IRC+10216 / Gillian R. Knapp 259

Maser Emission from Icy Planets Orbiting Young Stars / Viacheslav Slysh 273

A Protoplanetary Disk in V645 Cyg As Seen with H[subscript 2]O and Methanol Masers / Irina E. Val'tts, Viacheslav I. Slysh, Maksim A. Voronkov, Victor Migenes 279

The Formation of Subdwarf B Stars / Zhanwen Han, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Pierre F. L. Maxted, Tom R. Marsh, Natasha Ivanova 285

The Initial

Final Mass Relation for Close Low

Intermediate-Mass Binaries (non-conservative case) / Xuefei Chen, Zhanwen Han 291

Criterion for Dynamical Instability of Mass Transfer in Binary Evolution / Zhanwen Han, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Christopher A. Tout 297

Be Binaries with Warm Dust and Exotic High-Luminosity A-F Emission-Line Stars / Anatoly S. Miroshnichenko, Karen S. Bjorkman, Valentina G. Klochkova, Eugene L. Chentsov 303

The [beta] Pictoris Disk: Peculiar or Just Young? / Jack J. Lissauer, Dana E. Backman 309

TU Muscae and the Early-type Overcontact Binaries / Dirk Terrell 319

The Massive Contact Binary RY Scuti: A WR+OB Progenitor and Its Compact Nebula / Nathan Smith, Robert D. Gehrz 325

The Later Evolution of the Contact Binaries AP Leo, AK Her, AB And and AM Leo / Lifang Li, Zhanwen Han, Fenghui Zhang 331

Variability of the Light Curves of the Close Binary GR Tauri / Atsuma Yamasaki, Masao Takeda, Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Gunji Takada, Shinnosuke Hattori 337

Light Curve Changes in AH Cancri / Rolando M. Branly, Walter Van Hamme 339

V838 Monocerotis

a Newly Discovered, Very Peculiar, Slow Nova-Like Object / Thomas Rauch, Peter Hauschildt, Martin Asplund, Roland Gredel, Hans-Ulrich Kaufl, Florian Kerber, Michael Rosa, Sumner G. Starrfield, R. Mark Wagner, Robert E. Williams 345

HD 101065

Przybylski's Star: A Most Peculiar Star / Don W. Kurtz 351

Looking for Twins of Przybylski's Star / Swetlana Hubrig, Charles R. Cowley, Stefano Bagnulo, Gautier Mathys, Andreas Ritter, Glen M. Wahlgren 365

The Unusual Evolutionary State of Nova Scorpii 1994 / Christopher A. Tout, Eniko Regos, Dayal Wickramasinghe 373

Exoticism Among the Familiar and Bright / Elizabeth Griffin 379

Historic Spectra of Exotic Objects at your Fingertips: Raking up their Past / Elizabeth Griffin 385

Exotic Stars as Challenges to Evolution: an Evaluation / C. Simon Jeffery 389.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1583811222

OCLC:

51454626