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The MK process at 50 years : a powerful tool for astrophysical insight : a workshop of the Vatican Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., September 1993

Title
The MK process at 50 years : a powerful tool for astrophysical insight : a workshop of the Vatican Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., September 1993 / edited by C.J. Corbally, R.O. Gray, and R.F. Garrison.
Publication
San Francisco : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Corbally, C. J. (Christopher J.)
  • Gray, R. O. (Richard O.)
  • Garrison, R. F. (Robert F.)
Description
xxi, 411 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 60
Uniform Title
Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 60.
Subject
  • Morgan, W. W. 1906-1994
  • Keenan, Philip C. 1908-
  • Morgan, W. W. 1906-1994
  • Morgan, William Wilson
  • Keenan, Philip Childs
  • Stars > Spectra > Congresses
  • Stars > Classification > Congresses
  • Astronomical photometry > Congresses
  • 39.19 practical astronomy: other
  • Astronomical photometry
  • Stars > Classification
  • Stars > Spectra
  • MK-Klassifikation
  • Kongress
  • Sterren
  • Atlassen
  • Spectra
  • Étoiles > Spectres
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Congresses (form)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in an electronic version.
Contents
  • A Message from W.W. Morgan to the Participants -- Presentations to W.W. Morgan and P.C. Keenan -- A Hierarchy of Standards for the MK Process / R.F. Garrison -- Some Problems and Developments of Current Classification / P.C. Keenan -- Spectroscopy of Standard Stars in the Region 4000-9000 A / L.J. Corral, S.G. Navarro, J.H. Pena, R. Peniche and I. Hirata -- An Analysis of MK Spectral Types in the New Bright Star Catalogue / W.H. Warren, Jr. and D. Hoffleit -- Stellar Classification and the Theory of Stellar Atmospheres / D. Mihalas -- The MK Process and OB+ Stars / J.S. Drilling -- The Spectroscopic Classification of White Dwarfs: Unique Requirements and Challenges / J. Liebert and E.M. Sion -- Precision Classification / R.O. Gray -- The O3 Stars in 1993 / N.R. Walborn -- MK Spectral Classification in the Orion OBI Association / H. Levato, S. Malaroda, M. Grosso and N. Morrel -- MK Spectra of the Bright A-Type Stars / H.A. Abt -- The A2 IV Stars / S. Sreedhar Rao, M. Parthasarathy and C. Raghavender Rao -- Spectral Classification and Incidence of the Upper Main Sequence Chemically Peculiar Stars / F.A. Catalano and F. Leone -- On the Complementarity between MK Classification and Stromgren photometry / E.H. Olsen -- Photometric Classification and the MK Process Revisited / D.L. Crawford -- UBVRIJHKL Photometry, Stellar Systems and the Carbon Stars / T. Lloyd Evans.
  • CCD Four-Color Observations of BHB and FHB Stars: An Example of Photometry Complementing Spectroscopy in Stellar Classification / A.G.D. Philip -- Intrinsic Colors of MK Types in the Geneva Photometric System / B. Hauck -- The Geneva Multicolor Photometric System as a Complementary Tool of Spectroscopic Spectral Classification / M. Golay -- The MK Classification of B-Type Stars as seen by Geneva Photometry / N. Cramer -- Physical Data from Spectroscopy and High Precision Photometry / B. Nicolet -- Information Theory as a Tool for Extracting the Best Information Relevant to Spectral Classification from Geneva Photometry / J. Guarinos and M. Golay -- Fifty Years Ago: Astronomy; Yerkes Observatory; Morgan, Keenan, Kellman / D.E. Osterbrock -- Reminiscences on Antonia Maury and the c-Characteristic / D. Hoffleit -- Angelo Secchi and the Discovery of Carbon Stars / M.F. McCarthy -- Newton's Rainbow: From a Hole in the Wall to a Window on the Universe / J. Rountree -- The MK Process in Action Today / C.J. Corbally -- The Spectroscopic Properties of M Dwarfs in the Two Micron Region / P.C. Boeshaar and T.J. Davidge -- Near-Infrared Spectra of A-Type Stars / A.V. Torres-Dodgen -- Post-Asymptotic-Giant-Branch Supergiants / M. Parthasarathy -- A Calibrated System for Low Resolution Spectral Classification / B.A. Meyers-Rice and E.T. Young -- Spectral Classification with the IUE: An Atlas of B-Type Spectra / J. Rountree and G. Sonneborn.
  • International Ultraviolet Explorer Atlas of B-Type Spectra from 1200-1900 A / N.R. Walborn, J. Wm. Parker and J.S. Nichols -- The Michigan Survey and the Continuing Importance of Spectral Surveys / N. Houk -- Automated Classification of Stellar Spectra: Where are we now? / T. von Hippel, L.J. Storrie-Lombardi, M.C. Storrie-Lombardi and M.J. Irwin -- Neural-Network Classification of Normal, WN, and A-type stars / Wm. B. Weaver -- Automatic Spectral Classification Using Metric Distance Techniques / J. LaSala -- Digital Spectral Classification of Stars: An Automated Method / B.E. Penprase -- MK Classification in the Direction of the Galaxy Anticenter / K.B. Chargeishvili -- Present State of the Work on Automated Spectral Classification by Means of Objective-Prism Spectra / V. Malyuto and T. Shvelidze -- Faint, Cool Supergiants in the Southern Milky Way / D.J. MacConnell, R.F. Wing and E. Costa -- Spectral Classification from Low-Resolution CCD Long-Slit Spectra / H. Hensberge, W. Verschueren and J. Rogl -- Aitoff Projection Plots for Stars in Volumes 1-4 of the Michigan Spectral Catalogue / S.K. Austin, N. Houk and J.R. Sowell.
ISBN
  • 0937707791
  • 9780937707791
  • 9789377077914
  • 9377077915
LCCN
94072082
OCLC
  • ocm30848668
  • 30848668
  • SCSB-2024535
Owning Institutions
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