Mass Loss and Evolution of O-Type Stars

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P.S. Conti, C. de Loore
Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 6, 2012 - Science - 520 pages
The organization of this Symposium had its beginnings at the International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Grenoble in 1976. The initial "rounding up" of the Scienti fic Organizing Committee was begun by Drs. Snow and Swings; most of us who became the eventual organizing committee met a few times during the Assembly and formulated the essential outlines of the meeting. Extensive correspondence with all the committee subsequently established the program. The idea was to bring together both observers and theoreticians to discuss the stellar winds and mass loss rates and their effects on evolutions of O-type stars. On the observational side, there are now spectroscopic data from the far UV to the near IR regions concerning the stellar winds. There is also information about the free-free emission in the wind from the IR and radio portions of the spectrum. Fortunately, these different detection methods give more or less the same mass loss rate for the one star, s Pup" which has been observed at all wavelengths. One of the intents of the first three sessions of this Symposium is to outline the eXisting data on mass loss rates as it per tains to the O-type stars.
 

Contents

H alpha variations
23
On the formation
39
Stellar outflow relative motions
55
Modelling of UV resonance lines 81
63
0 VI in stellar winds
93
Winds in hot subluminous stars
99
Analysis
109
INFRARED AND RADIO DATA
117
The Ha profile in Zeta Puppis 249
253
The Otype spectroscopic
271
The spectroscopic binary
287
F BISIACCHI L CARRASCO R COSTERO C FIRMANI
301
Critical rates
349
Supergiant mass loss and the Cassiopeia
357
The role
367
Mass conservation and rapid mass loss
375

of O stars and related objects
131
Infrared
139
Radio emission from flows
147
stars at two centimeters
155
PANEL DISCUSSION ON STELLAR
167
The warm wind model
191
The thermodynamic requirements on
214
THEORY AND MASS LOSS RATES
235
common envelope binaries and mass loss 401
400
Common envelope binaries and mass loss
415
EVOLUTIONARY SCENARIO AND
428
The galactic WN7WN8
446
The chemical nature
461
Observations of velocity fields in
475
Summary of the conference
491
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