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Title

The fate of the most massive stars : proceedings of a meeting held at Jackson Lake Lodge, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA 23-28 May 2004 / edited by Roberta M. Humphreys and Krzysztof Z. Stanek.

Publication

San Francisco : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

• Humphreys, Roberta M.
• Stanek, Krzysztof Z. (Krzysztof Zbigniew), 1968-

Description

xvi, 423 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 332

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 332.

Alternative Title

Fate of most massive stars

Subjects

• Supergiant stars > Congresses
• Stars > Evolution > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Evolution of the most massive stars / A. Maeder, G. Meynet and R. Hirschi -- [eta] carinae - the observational story, 1600 to 2004 / R. M. Humphreys -- Instabilities in the most massive evolved stars / W. Glatzel -- Supernovae and their massive star progenitors / A. Filippenko -- The [eta] carinae analogs / S. Van Dyk -- The pistol star and unstable massive stars at the galactic center / F. Najarro -- Witnessing a major LBV eruption at low metallicity : the case of NGC 2363 - V1 / L. Drissen and V. Petit -- Simulations of a supernova imposter / D. Arnett, C. Meakin and P. A. Young -- Supernova impostors in the center for astrophysics SN database / T. Matheson -- SN1961v - supernova or supernova impostor? / R. M. Humphreys -- The physical nature of [eta] carinae / K. Davidson -- The optical variability of [eta] carinae since 1950 / J. C. Martin -- [eta] carinae : the near-infrared light-curves / P. A. Whitelock -- The 5.5-yr cycle in eta carinae in the last 50 years / A. Damineli, R. Levenhagen and N. V. Leister -- X rays from an impostor / M. F. Corcoran -- The radio cycle of eta carinae / S. M. White, R. A. Duncan, J. M. Chapman and B. Koribalski -- Historical eruptions of eta carinae : looking through the homunculus / K. Ishibashi -- A spectroscopic event viewed from different directions / O. Stahl, K. Weis, D. Bomans, K. Davidson, R. M. Humphreys and T. R. Gull -- The bipolar wind of eta carinae / N. Smith -- The mass loss and life expectancy of [eta] carinae / A. de Koter, R. van Boekel, P. Kervella and M. Scholler -- Quantitative analysis of STIS spectra of NGC 2363-V1 / V. Petit, L. Drissen and P. A. Crowther -- New insights from the historical record of [eta] carinae / D. Frew -- The historical spectra of [eta] car, 1892 - 1941 / R. M. Humphreys and M. Koppelman -- The [eta] car campaign with UVES at the ESO VLT / K. Weis, D. Bomans, O. Stahl, K. Davidson, R. M. Humphreys and T. R. Gull -- Eta carinae : how do we separate wind from ejecta? / T. R. Gull, K. Nielsen and G. Vieira / HST Eta Carinae Treasury Team -- The absorption spectrum of the [eta] car ejecta / K. E. Nielsen, G. Vieira and T. R. Gull -- The [eta] car campaign with UVES at the ESO VLT : II. Interstellar and circumstellar absorption lines / D. Bomans, K. Weis, O. Stahl, T. R. Gull, K. Davidson and R. M. Humphreys -- The purple haze of eta carinae / N. Smith, J. A. Morse, N. R. Collins and T. R. Gull -- The sub-arcsecond dusty environment of [eta] carinae / O. Chesneau, M. Min, T. Herbst, L. B. F. M. Waters, Ch. Leinert and J. Hillier -- Explaining the features of the bipolar nebula of [eta]-carinae through gas dynamical simulations / E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, R. F. Gonzalez, A. C. Raga and P. F. Velezquez -- Radiatively driven stellar winds and aspherical mass loss / S. Owocki -- Exceeding the Eddington limit / N. Shaviv -- Stellar evolution with hydrodynamic ejection / P. A. Young -- Mass loss near the Eddington limit / J. E. Bjorkman -- On thermal dis-equilibrium in super-Eddington stars / K. Gayley -- Instability considerations for massive star eruptions / J. Guzik -- Mass loss in massive stars / D. J. Hillier -- Evolution at very low and zero Z / G. Meynet, Andre Maeder and Sylvia Ekstrom -- Line driven winds, ionizing fluxes and UV-spectra of hot stars at extremely low metallicity / R.-P. Kudritzki -- The critical metallicity for cosmic star formation / R. Schneider -- The most massive stars in the local group : measuring accurate masses of stars in eclipsing binaries / A. Z. Bonanos and K. Z. Stanek -- Pulsation-driven mass loss in luminous blue variables / J. A. Guzik, A. N. Cox and K. M. Despain -- Explaining the discrepancy between "empirical" and predicted ionization in the winds of O-stars / M. R. Mokiem and A. de Koter -- Opacity effects on the pulsations of 20 solar mass models / J. A. Guzik and B. A. Austin -- CNO evolutionary diagnostics in magellanic cloud O2 spectra / N. R. Walborn -- First stars and the near infrared background / R. Salvaterra, A. Ferrara and M. Magliocchetti -- The outer ejecta of [eta] carinae / K. Weis -- Eta carinae : the "nearby" ejecta / T. R. Gull -- HST spectroscopy of [eta] car's inner ejecta / F. Hamann -- Physical conditions in the homunculus / G. J. Ferland, N. Abel, K. Davidson and N. Smith -- The dusty homunculus nebula of [eta] carinae / N. Smith -- The solid state composition and mass of the homunculus of [eta] carinae / A. de Koter, M. Min, R. van Boekel and O. Chesneau -- Dust formation in LBV envelopes / H.-P. Gail, W. J. Duschl, A. S. Ferrarotti and K. Weis -- The environments of the most massive stars / V. Dwarkadas -- Dust in supernovae and supernova remnants / M. G. Edmunds and H. L. Morgan -- Final stages of the most massive stars / A. Heger, S. E. Woosley and I. Baraffe -- Rotating core collapse and bipolar supernova explosions / A. Burrows, R. Walder, C. D. Ott and E. Livne -- Supernova asymmetries and pulsar kicks - views on controversial issues / H.-Th. Janka, L. Scheck, K. Kifonidis, E. Muller and T. Plewa -- Hypernovae, black-hole-forming supernovae, and first stars / K. Nomoto, N. Tominaga, H. Umeda, K. Maeda, T. Ohkubo, J. Deng and P. A. Mazzali -- Hypernovae and gamma-ray bursts / P. A. Mazzali, K. Nomoto, J. Deng, K. Maeda and N. Tominaga -- Supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, and stellar rotation / S. E. Woosley and A. Heger -- The supernovae associated with gamma-ray bursts / T. Matheson -- Quantitative spectroscopy of type II supernovae with CMFGEN / L. Dessart and D. J. Hillier -- X-ray binaries as indicators of SN explosions / E. T. Harlaftis and A. Filippenko -- X-ray emission from SN 1986J / J. C. Houck -- SN evolution in the environment of massive stars / V. Dwarkadas -- Production of gamma ray bursts from asymmetric core combustion of magnetized young neutron stars / E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, G. Lugones, J. E. Horvath and C. R. Ghezzi.

ISBN

1583811958

LCCN

2005922316

OCLC

• ocm61853460
• SCSB-5215417

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