Research Catalog

Title

Instability and variability of hot-star winds : proceedings of an international workshop held at Isle-Aux-Coudres, Quebec Province, Canada, August 23-27, 1993 / edited by Anthony F.J. Moffat [and others].

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1994], [©1994]

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Additional Authors

Moffat, A. F. J.

Description

xiii, 501 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Stellar winds > Congresses
• Early stars > Congresses
• Wolf-Rayet stars > Congresses

Note

• "Reprinted from Astrophysics and space science, volume 221, nos. 1-2, 1994."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Theory Review: Line-Driven Instability and Other Causes of Structure and Variability in Hot-Star Winds / S. P. Owocki -- Compressible Turbulence or Spatio-Temporal Chaos? / R. N. Henriksen -- Observational Aspects of Wind Variability / H. J. G. L. M. Lamers -- Observations of Structure in the Stellar Wind of HD 152408 / R. K. Prinja and A. W. Fullerton -- Wind Variability in Intermediate Luminosity B Supergiants / D. Massa, A. Fullerton and R. Prinja -- Monitoring the Winds of Hot Stars with HST/GHRS / S. R. Heap -- Winds of Magnetic B Stars / C. T. Bolton -- Photospheric Variability of O Stars / A. W. Fullerton -- Wind Variability in O-Type Stars. On the Behaviour and Origin of DACs / L. Kaper and H. F. Henrichs -- Optical Spectroscopy of Inhomogeneities in the Winds of Wolf-Rayet Stars / C. Robert -- Erratum: The 2.27 Day Period of WR 134 (HD 191765) / S. R. McCandliss, B. Bohannan, C. Robert and A. F. J. Moffat --
• Wolf-Rayet Stars as (Potentially) Fast Rotators with Rotationally-Induced Instability / S. V. Marchenko -- Further Results on the Line-Profile Variability of WR 134 / E. Gosset, J.-M. Vreux and Y. Andrillat -- Optical Observations of Line Profile Variability in the WN5 Star HD 50896 / L. J. Smith and A. J. Willis -- Simultaneous Optical and UV Observations of Variability in HD 50896 / N. St. Louis -- IR- and Radio-Fluxes from Smooth and Clumped Wind Models of Wolf-Rayet Stars / T. Nugis -- Clumped Structure of WR Winds Derived from IR Observations of WR + O Binaries: Some Constraints on the Light Curve Solution for V444 Cygni / A. M. Cherepashchuk -- Analysis of Optical and IR Light Curves of the WR Binary V444 Cygni: Are Clumps Still Present? / I. Antokhin -- The Infrared and Radio Continuum of OB-Stars / M. Runacres and R. Blomme -- Nonthermal Radio Emission from Hot Star Winds. Its Origin and Physical Implications / W. Chen and R. L. White --
• ROSAT en EUVE Observations of B Stars / J. P. Cassinelli -- Constraints on Hot Star X-Ray Source Characteristics from Combined Analysis of X-Ray and UV Observations / J. J. MacFarlane -- Particle Acceleration, X-Rays, and Gamma-Rays from Winds / R. L. White and W. Chen -- ROSAT X-Ray Light Curves of Early-Type Stars. A Search for X-Ray Time Variability of OB Stars / T. W. Berghofer and J. H. M. M. Schmitt -- ROSAT X-Ray Observations of the WR Stars HD 50896 (WN5) and [gamma] Velorum (WC8 + O9I) / A. J. Willis, H. Schild, I. D. Howarth and I. R. Stevens -- Spectropolarimetric Variability in OB Stars / K. S. Bjorkman -- Spectropolarimetry of Hot, Luminous Stars / R. E. Schulte-Ladbeck -- Spectropolarimetric Modelling of Hot Star Wind Structure / J. C. Brown -- Spectropolarimetric Observations of WR 137 / Tim J. Harries and Ian D. Howarth -- Wavelet Analysis of Wolf-Rayet Emission Line Variability. Evidence for Clumping / S. Lepine --
• Filaments, Disks, and Jets for OF and WR Stars / A. B. Underhill -- Structure and Energy Transfer of Unstable Hot Star Winds / A. Feldmeier -- Synthesis of Line Profiles from Models of Structured Winds / J. Puls, A. Feldmeier, U. W. E. Springman, S. P. Owocki and A. W. Fullerton -- X-Ray Emission in Wind Instability Simulations / R. G. Cooper and S. P. Owocki -- I-D Models of Induced Density Enhancements in Hot-Star Winds / S. P. Owocki and A. W. Fullerton -- Effects of Rotation on Hot Star Winds / J. E. Bjorkman -- 2-D Hydrodynamical Simulations of Wind Compressed Disks (Abstract) / S. P. Owocki, S. P. Cranmer and J. M. Blondin -- Growth of the Line-Profile Variation Region during BE Episodes in Lambda Eridani / E. Kambe -- Consequences of Clumping in Hot-Star Winds / A. F. J. Moffat -- Closing Comments: Instability and Variability in Hot Star Winds / J. P. Cassinelli -- Wind-Wind Collisions in WR + O and O + O Binaries / A. M. Cherepashchuk -- Summary Comments / S. R. Heap --
• Impressions of the Workshop / H. J. G. L. M. Lamers -- Summary Comments / S. P. Owocki -- General Discussion / All Participants.

ISBN

0792333314 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

94045298

OCLC

• 31709686
• ocm31709686

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