Research Catalog

Title

14th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun : proceedings of a workshop held by Spitzer Science Center and Michelson Science Center at Hilton Pasadena Hotel, Pasadena, California, USA, 5-10 November 2006 / edited by Gerard van Belle.

Author

Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (14th : 2006 : Pasadena, Calif.)

Publication

San Francisco : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Van Belle, Gerard.
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Description

xix, 441 pages : illustrations; 24 cm +

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 384

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 384.

Alternative Title

Fourteenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun

Subjects

• Cool stars > Congresses
• Sun > Congresses
• Stars > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Pt. 1. Helioseismology and Abundances -- The Legacy of John Bahcall / M. H. Pinsonneault -- What has Helioseismology Taught us about the Sun? / S. Basu -- Asteroseismology from Solar-Like Oscillations / T. R. Bedding and H. Kjeldsen -- Atomic Diffusion in Old Stars - Helium, Lithium, and Heavy Elements / A. J. Korn / ADIOS team -- The Abundances of Oxygen and Carbon in the Solar Photosphere / C. A. Prieto -- The Solar Oxygen Problem: Crisis, Catastrophe, or Opportunity? / T. R. Ayres -- Pt. 2. Star Formation - Cores to Disks -- The Eagle Nebula: Pillars of Creation, EGGs, and PMS stars in NGC 6611 / J. L. Linsky, M. Gacne, A. Mytyk, M. McCaughrean and M. Andersen -- Highlights from the XMM-Newton Extended Survey of the Taurus Molecular Cloud (XEST) / M. Gudel, K. Arzner, M. Audard, J. Bouvier, K. Briggs, C. Dougados, E. Feigelson, E. Franciosini, A. Glauser, N. Grosso, S. Guieu, F. Menard, G. Micela, J. Monin, T. Montmerle, D. Padgett, F. Palla, I. Pillitteri, T. Preibisch, L. Rebull, L. Scelsi, B. Silva, S. Skinner, B. Stelzer and A. Telleschci -- Dynamical Theories of Star Formation / L. Hartmann -- Pt. 3. Brown Dwarfs -- Outstanding Issues in our Understanding of L, T, and Y Dwarfs / J. D. Kirkpatrick -- Properties of the Coolest Dwarfs / S. Leggett, R. Freedman, T. Geballe, D. Golimowski, N. Lodieu, M. Marley, D. Pinfield, D. Saumon, D. Stephens and S. Warren -- Clouds and Chemistry: Probing the Atmospheres of Ultracool Dwarfs with Spitzer / M. C. Cushing -- A New Population of Young Brown Dwarfs / K. L. Cruz, J. D. Kirkpatrick, A. Burgasser, D. Looper, S. Mohanty, L. Prato, J. Faherty and A. Solomon -- Ultracool Subdwarfs: Subsolar Metallicity Objects Down to Substellar Masses 126 / A. J. Burgasser -- Uncertainties in Brown Dwarf Models / T. S. Barman -- Pt. 4. Solar/Stellar Magnetic Fields -- Photospheric Magnetic Field Measurements on Late-Type Stars and Brown Dwarfs / C. M. Johns-Krull -- Magnetic Topologies of Cool Stars / J. F. Donati -- New Observations of the Magnetic Vector Field across the Solar Disk / C. U. Keller, J. W. Harvey and C. J. Henney -- First Direct Detection of Magnetic Fields in Starspots and Stellar Chromospheres / S. V. Berdyugina, D. M. Fluri and N. Afram, F. Suwald -- Magnetic Flux Emergence in the Solar Photosphere / M. C. M. Cheung, M. Schussler and F. Moreno-Insertis -- Pt. 5. Testing Stellar Evolutionary Models -- Interferometric Angular Diameters, Linear Radii and Stellar Modeling / P. Kervella -- An Assessment of HR Diagram Constraints on Ages and Age Spreads in Star-Forming Regions and Young Clusters / L. A. Hillenbrand, A. Bauermeister and R. J. White -- Empirical Constraints on the Interiors of Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Stars and Young Brown Dwarfs / K. G. Stassun -- How Accurately can we Determine Stellar Parameters? The Case of Teff in Cool Stars / F. Grupp and L. I. Mashonkina -- The Radius-Luminosity Relation from Near-Infrared Interferometry: New M Dwarf Sizes from the CHARA Array / D. H. Berger, T. A. ten Brummelaar, D. R. Gies, T. J. Henry, H. A. McAlister, A. Merand, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, N. H. Turner, J. P. Aufdenberg and S. T. Ridgway -- The Spitzer 24[mu]m Photometric Light Curve of the Eclipsing M-dwarf Binary GU Bootis / K. von Braun, G. T. van Belle, D. R. Ciardi, M. Lopez-Morales, D. W. Hoard and S. Wachter -- Isochrone Calibration: Theory, Synthesis, and Future Observations / D. M. Terndrup -- Pt. 6. Extrasolar Planets -- Extra-solar Planets Observations: Towards "Exo-planetology" / F. Pont -- Hot Jupiter Model Atmospheres in the Spitzer Era / J. Fortney -- The CoRoT Exoplanet Programme: Exploring the Gas-Giant/Terrestrial Planet Transition / S. Aigrain, P. Barge, M. Deleuil, F. Fressin, C. Moutou, D. Queloz, M. Auvergne and A. Baglin / CoRoT Exoplanet Science Team -- The Kepler Mission: Terrestrial Extrasolar Planets and Stellar Activity / G. Basri, F. Ramos-Stierle, K. Soto, T. Lewis, A. Reiners, W. Borucki and D. Koch -- Stellar Metallicity and Planet Formation / J. Valenti and D. Fischer -- Atmospheric Erosion Caused By Stellar Coronal Plasma Flows On Terrestrial ExoplanetsWithin Close-In Habitable Zones of Low Mass Stars / H. Lammer, N. Terada, Yu. N. Kulikov, H. I. M. Lichtenegger, M. L. Khodachenko and T. Penz -- Pt. 7. Stellar Winds and Spins: From Birth through the Main Sequence -- Winds of Main-Sequence Stars: Observational Limits and a Path to Theoretical Prediction / S. R. Cranmer -- Rotation In Young Stars / L. M. Rebull, J. R. Stauffer, S. C. Wolff and S. E. Strom -- Understanding the Spins of Young Stars / S. Matt and R. Pudritz -- Pt. 8. Splinter Summaries -- Summary of the Splinter Session: Spectral Diagnostics of Hot Plasma from Cool Stars / N. S. Brickhouse -- The Formation Of Low-Mass Protostars And Proto-Brown Dwarfs / J. Eisloffel and J. Steinacker -- Mining The Next Generation Of Surveys for Cool Star Science / D. J. Pinfield, M. C. Liu, H. R. A. Jones, J. D. Kirkpatrick, T. A. Lister, E. A. Magnier, E. Moraux, A. A. West and J. Liebert / WASP Consortium, Pan-STARRS Team and UKIDSS Cool Dwarf Science Working Group -- A Splinter Session on the Thorny Problem of Stellar Ages / E. E. Mamajek, D. Barrado y Navascues, S. Randich, E. L. N. Jensen, P. A. Young, A. Miglio and S. A. Barnes -- Disks around Brown Dwarfs and Cool Stars / D. Apai, K. Luhman and M. C. Liu -- Cool Stars In Hot Places / S. T. Megeath, E. Gaidos, J. J. Hester, F. C. Adams, J. Bally, J.-E. Lee and S. Wolk -- Substellar Twins / H. Bouy and R. Jayawardhana -- Coronal Structure Of Pre-Main Sequence Stars / M. Jardine.

ISBN

• 1583813314
• 9781583813317

OCLC

• ocn226355988
• 226355988
• SCSB-5411036

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries