Research Catalog

Title

Mass loss from stars and the evolution of stellar clusters : proceedings of a workshop held at Lunteren, the Netherlands, 29 May-1 June 2006 / edited by Alex de Koter, Linda J. Smith and Laurens B.F.M. Waters.

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

• Koter, Alex de.
• Smith, Linda J. (Linda Janet), 1956-
• Waters, L. B. F. M.
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Description

xix, 471 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 388

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 388.

Subject

• Stars > Congresses
• Stars > Evolution > Congresses
• Stars > Clusters > Congresses
• Mass loss (Astrophysics) > Congresses
• 39.40 stars and star systems: general
• Mass loss (Astrophysics)
• Stars
• Stars > Clusters
• Stars > Evolution
• Galaxy clusters
• Evolution of stars

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congresses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Contents

pt. 1. Mass Loss from Stars -- Mass Loss and the Evolution of Massive Stars -- Are Wolf-Rayet Winds Driven by Radiation? -- Pulsations Beneath the Winds: Unique Precise Photometry from MOST -- Massive Stars, Supernovae and long GRBs -- Pre-Supernova Mass Loss Predictions for Massive Stars -- Rotation and Mass Loss -- Using Polarization to Study the Winds of Massive Stars -- Measuring Rotation Rates and Magnetic Fields of Wolf-Rayet Stars -- Observational Constraints on Mass Loss and Evolution of Massive Stars -- Stellar Winds from Massive Stars -- What are the REAL Mass-Loss Rates? -- Properties of Galactic B Supergiants -- The Enigmatic Eta Carinae: Current Status -- Giant Outbursts of the Eta Carinae-P Cygni Type -- X-rays and Winds in Massive Stars of Cygnus OB2 -- Radio Evidence on the Mass Loss Bistability Jump -- K-band Spectroscopy of Deeply Embedded, Young OB Stars -- Radio Observations of Mass Loss in OB Stars -- On the Evolutionary Stage of the Galactic Unclassified B[e] Star CD-42[degree]11721 -- A New LBV Candidate in M33 -- The ISM around WR Stars: WR 152 and WR 153ab -- The Early Mass Loss History of the Classical Nova V1974 Cyg 1992 -- Stationary Model of a Line Driven Wind with Rotation -- Large-Scale Wind Variability of WR1 (HD 4004); Towards the Rotation Rate of Wolf-Rayet Stars -- Probing the Mass-Loss History of VY CMa -- AGB Mass-Loss Variations: What Can We Learn from (Sub)millimetre Observations? -- Small Magellanic Cloud Be Stars: Color-magnitude Relations and Mass- Loss -- Stellar Content of Ultra-Compact H II Regions Using Spitzer/MIPS -- Ejecta of [eta] Car: What We are Learning about Nitrogen-Rich Chemistry -- The Wolf-Rayet Population of Westerlund 1 -- Do We Understand Wolf-Rayet Stars? -- AG Carinae: a Luminous Blue Variable with a High Rotational Velocity -- Wind Ram Pressures and Mass Loss Rates of Solar-like Stars -- A Spitzer IRS Survey of Wolf-Rayet Stars at 10-20 Microns -- FUSE Observations of three Early-type, Double-lined Spectroscopic Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds -- Influence of New AGB Mass Loss Rates on Stellar Models -- The Winds and Disks of B[e] Supergiants -- The Influence of X-ray Emission on the Stellar Wind of O Stars -- Influence of the Frictional Heating on the Wind Line-Profiles of SMC Stars -- Periodically Variable B-type Supergiants: Empirical Evidence for Non-Radial Gravity-Mode Oscillations -- Wind Diagnostic from Infrared Lines -- Stellar Winds from Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae: Metallicity Effects -- Looking for Mister Goodstar (A Preliminary Analysis of Stars with SIV, V and VI Wind Lines) -- Optical and Infrared Observations of Stellar Mass Loss in Globular Cluster Red Giants -- How Strong is Mass Loss from B[e] Stars? -- Optically Thick Winds of Hot Stars: What Determines the Mass Flux? -- A Conceptual Analysis of Mass Loss and Frequency Redistribution in Wolf- Rayet Winds -- Examining O and WR Star Winds with X-rays -- Some Considerations on the HMXRB LSI +61 303 -- Molecular Gas Surrounding LBV Stars -- Radio Observations of Candidate Magnetic O Stars -- Mass Loss from the Central Star of NGC 7009 -- The Luminous Variable Stars in M 33 -- Multicomponent Stellar Wind of Hot Stars -- The AG Carinae Nebula -- Bigger than ever? -- The Neon Abundance in WR Stars: Testing Massive Star Evolution -- 2D non-LTE Modeling for Axisymmetric Winds -- pt. 1. General Discussion: Mass Loss from Stars -- pt. 2. Mass Loss and the Evolution of Stellar Clusters -- Formation and Evolution of Young Massive Clusters -- Numerical Simulations of Star Cluster Formation -- The Birth and Early Evolution of Star Clusters -- Observational Constraints on Cluster Evolution -- Spectral Synthesis of Massive Stars in Clusters -- Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere Bubbles -- Mass Loss from Clusters -- Reconstructing the Initial Relaxation Time of Young Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud -- The Transition from Star Cluster to Dwarf Galaxies -- The Impact of Selective Mass Loss on the Age Determination of Star Clusters -- Cluster Disruption: Combining Theory and Observations -- Star Clusters in the Solar Neighborhood: a Solution to Oort's Problem -- Catching Dissolving Clusters: A New Approach -- Newly Born O Stars in Clusters -- Feedback and Clusters in the Sdm Galaxy UGC 1281 -- 3D Photoionization and Dust Modeling with MOCASSIN: Geometry Effects on the Spectra of Star-forming Regions -- On the Mass of Dense Star Clusters in Starburst Galaxies from Spectrophotometry -- The Role of Tidal Forces in Star Cluster Disruption -- Variation of the Cluster Luminosity Function Across the Disk of M51 -- The Impact of Red Giant Mass Loss on Star Cluster Evolution -- Reconstructing Galactic Star Formation Histories from Star Cluster Age- and Mass-Distributions -- Dynamical Mass of a Young Massive Cluster in NGC 1140 -- Stellar Populations in the Magellanic Clouds -- The Initial Mass Function of the Galactic Old Halo Cluster System -- Thousands of Star Clusters in M51 with HST/ACS -- Hard X-ray Emission Associated with High-Mass Star Formation in the Young Stellar Cluster NGC 2071 -- Studying the Roots of the Galactic Wind in NGC 1569: IFU Observations of Cluster NGC 1569-10 -- pt. 2. General Discussion: The Evolution of Star Clusters -- pt. 3. Summary -- Mass Loss Summary -- a Personal Perspective -- Conference Summary: Mass Loss from Stellar Clusters -- Mass Loss and Evolution of Stars and Star Clusters: a Personal Historical Perspective.

ISBN

• 9781583816448
• 1583816445
• 9781583816455
• 1583816453

LCCN

2008924892

OCLC

• ocn233537666
• 233537666
• SCSB-1493570

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library