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Astrochemistry: Recent Successes and Current Challenges (IAU S231)

... Astrochemistry : Recent Successes and Current Challenges A rapidly growing interdisciplinary field , astrochemistry is the study of molecules and their chemistry in sources throughout the Universe . In IAU $ 231 , astronomers and chemists ...

Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars: Proceedings of the 191st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union Held in Montpellier, France, 27 August-1 September 1998

... Frost et al . 1998 ; see also Lattanzio & Forestini , this volume ) . Fig . 5 shows the predicted luminosity range spanned by carbon stars , for initial masses in the range 3.5 ÷ 5.0Mo , as a function of metallicity Z , and mixing ...

Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems (IAU S246)

... ex2 ' rate per binary ' dss ' rate per binary 0.1 10-1 1 10 : 2 P ( days ) 10 PXB ( detached ) XB ( mass transfer ) à ( RoMyr11 ) 7 = 103 10-3 104 10-5 100 1 10 a ( Ro 0 1 a ( Ro 10 Figure 1. Left : A comparison of the dynamical rates ...

A Giant Step: From Milli- to Micro- Arcsecond Astrometry (IAU S248)

... Tau 187 - T Tau Sb 188 , 209 T Sgr - 487 Taurus complex - 208 Teide 1 - 31 Titan - 71 Titania 70 - Triton - 93 TW Hydrae 432 - TW Hydrae Association 508 TWA 5 126 UGC 3789 146 Umbriel 70 Uranus 22 , 70 , 420 , 561 V1061 Cyg 10 V773 Tau ...

Cosmic Magnetic Fields (IAU S259): From Planets to Stars and Galaxies

... Schmidt number of around unity was measured by Turner et al . ( 2006 ) , while Fromang & Papaloizou ( 2006 ) reported a value of approximately three . This gives some confidence that the Schmidt number is well constrained . However ...

Light Elements in the Universe (IAU S268)

... mass as abscissa , to have a better feeling of the yields expected . We see in Fig . 3 that there is little space for further changes in the surface helium , that remains almost unchanged with respect to the mass fraction reached during ...

The Art of Modeling Stars in the 21st Century (IAU S252)

... ensemble averages of velocity and temperature fields and their lower order ... transfer is treated in the diffusion approximation . As in Kupka & Muthsam ... code of Kupka ( 1999 ) . The model equations are those suggested in Canuto ...

Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors (IAU S229)

... Muramatsu 22 P / 1991 13 ( Levy ) Damaged region 39 Forbidden region -3 ISM Si aggregates ( Davidsson , 1999 ) , p = 300 kg ; Lower nucleus bulk density , Low p 100 kg m Larger nucleus bulk density , Large p700 kg m - 3 20 40 60 80 100 ...

Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binaries, Colliding Winds, Evolution

... ensemble over the wind is given simply by T1 = Klines ( 1 ) p ( r ) dr = V ... transfer that , apart from the anisotropy , is quite analogous to that in ... account for the angular dependence of the radiation field resulting from the non ...

The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context (IAU S254)

... T.- 508 Navarro , J.- 508 - Nedialkov , P. – 507 Newberg , H.- 508 Nissen , P. 103 , 508 Nomoto , K. - 355 Nordström , B. 349 , 506 Norris , J. 507 - Oey , S. 197 , 507 Oh , S. - 507 Oh , S.H. 507 Ortolani , S. 153 - - Palouš , J. - 233 ...

Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges (IAU S245)

... many papers that followed . For the observational evidence for the association of ... shape in their emission line spectra . This shape is associated with the ... spherical , and some are close to disklike , with intrinsic axial ratios as ...

Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy (IAU S261): Dynamics, Reference Frames, and Data Analysis

... VEX -10 ± 30 0 + 200 MGS / MO + MEX Viking Jupiter VLBI 30 ± 130 1822 0200 ... test bed for some hypothesis describing the pioneer anomalies . A classic ... tests with INPOP planetary ephemerides 167.

Scientific Requirements for Extremely Large Telescopes (IAU S232)

... 5e noise at high readout rates of up to 500Hz need more development . A ... DMs , laser guide stars ; • Lightweight segment materials , high ... DMs , large lenses & filters , VPH gratings , IR fibres , in - fibre Bragg gratings . Submm ...

Populations of High-Energy Sources in Galaxies (IAU S230)

... is related to galaxy type ( and / or metal abundance ) since they are often found in nearby dwarf galaxies . 4.2 . The Local Environment The more luminous ULXS are frequently located near to sites of active star formation such as super star ...

The Interplay Among Black Holes, Stars and ISM in Galactic Nuclei (IAU S222)

... trilce@inaoep.mx Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova , Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 535122 , Padua , Italy email ... UV . These features are charac- teristic of young stars and therefore represent strong evidence of recent star formation in ...

Stellar Populations: Planning for the Next Decade : Proceedings of the 262th [sic] Symposium of the International Astronomical Union Held in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, August 3-7, 2009

... types galaxies are old , quiescent , more metal enriched , formed in a ... not well known . To tackle these questions we need to resort to lookback ... true for z > 1 galaxies ( although more hours may have been spent on them ! ) . Key ...

Molecules in Astrophysics: Probes and Processes

... University of Maryland College Park , MD 20742 , U.S.A. lgm@astro.umd.edu Osservatorio di Arcetri Largo Fermi 5 , I - 50125 Firenze , Italy natta@arcetri.astro.it Dept. of Physics & Astronomy , Johns Hopkins University 3400 North ...

Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent Interstellar Medium (IAU S237)

... University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign , Urbana , USA Roger Chevalier ... uiuc.edu rac5x@virginia.edu pschiang@astro.ncu.edu.tw yhchoi@apl.khu.ac.kr ... sona@ig.cas.cz eliad@le.infn.it bge@watson.ibm.com elmegreen@vassar.edu ...

Waves and Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere (IAU S247): Heating and Magneto-Seismology

... kink modes . This paper reviews how the observed period and damping time can be reproduced by MHD wave theory when non - uniform equilibrium models are considered that have a transversal variation of the local Alfven velocity . The key ...

Near Earth Objects, Our Celestial Neighbors (IAU S236): Opportunity and Risk

... FF12 , but the forbidden regions in ẞ vs. X are more clear . The amplitude of the lightcurve is 0.2 mag , and thus the aspect ratios are allowed to obtain values up to 0.92 . Best - fit solutions are distributed evenly all over the region ...

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