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Stellar collisions, mergers an [sic] 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

Title
Stellar collisions, mergers an [sic] 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.
Publication
San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Shara, Michael M.
  • American Museum of Natural History.
Description
xix, 426 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 263
Uniform Title
Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 263.
Alternative Title
Stellar collisions, mergers and their consequences
Subject
  • Stellar dynamics > Congresses
  • Stars > Evolution > Congresses
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
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.
ISBN
1583811036
LCCN
2002101213
OCLC
  • ocm50790864
  • SCSB-4316513
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries