Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quantities: Proceedings of the 111th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union Held at Villa Olmo, Como, It

ISBN-13: 9789027721105 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 644 str.

International Astronomical Union; D. S. Hayes; L. E. Pasinetti

Opis

IAU Symposium No. 111, "Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quanti- ties", was held at Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, on May 24-29, 1984. Meet- ings held in the past ten years on related topics include: IAU Symposium No. 109, '*Astrometric Techniques", held at the University of Florida in Jan. , 1984, "The MK Process and Stellar Classification", held at the University of Toronto in June, 1983, "Stellar Absolute Energy Distri- butions", an unpublished Joint Meeting (Commissions 25 and 45), held at the General Assembly of the IAU in Patras, Greece in August, 1982, IAU Colloquium No. 62, "Current Techniques in Double and Multiple Star Re- search", held at Northern Arizona University in May, 1981, the ESO Work- fl shop: "Methods of Abundance Determination for Stars , held in Geneva in March, 1980, "Problems of Calibration of Multicolor Photometric Sys tems", held at Dudley Observatory in March, 1979, IAU Colloquium No. 48, "Modern Astrometry", held at the University of Vienna in Sept. , 1978, IAU Colloquium No. 50, "High Angular Resolution Stellar Interferometry" held at the University of Maryland in Aug. , 1978, "Spectral Classifice. - tion of the Future", held at the Vatican in July, 1978 and IAU Sympos- ium No. 72, "Abundance Effects in Classification", held at the Univer- sity of Lausanne in July, 1975. The present meeting was the first to cover the broad range of the calibration of fundamental stellar qU8T". ti- ties in one meeting. Nine commissions of the IAU co-sponsored the meeting.

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1. Review Papers.- 1.1 Standard Stars.- The Choice of Standard Stars.- (Papers on stellar radial velocities may be found on pp. 583 and 587.).- The Use and Abuse of Standard Stars.- (Related papers may be found on pp. 353 and 357.).- 1.2 Parallaxes and Proper Motions.- Trigonometric Parallaxes and Their Calibration.- The Determination of Fundamental Proper Motions.- (Related papers may be found on pp. 36 – 381 and 601.).- 1.3 Information Obtained from Binary Systems.- Positional Astronomy and Stellar Masses.- Masses, Radii and Luminosities from Analysis of Eclipsing Binaries.- The Calibration of Interferometrically Determined Properties of Binary Stars.- (Related papers may be found on pp. 385 – 401.).- 1.4 Stellar Classification.- The MK Classification and Its Calibration.- (Related papers may be found on pp. 403 – 415.).- 1.5 Abundances.- How Precise are Spectroscopic Abundance Determinations Today?.- (Related papers may be found on pp. 417 – 443.).- 1.6 Stellar Rotation.- Determination of Stellar Rotational Velocities.- 1.7 Angular Diameters.- Measuring Stars with High Angular Resolution: Results from Narrabri Observatory.- Measuring Stars with High Angular Resolution: Current Status and Future Prospects.- (Related papers may be found on pp. 447 – 459.).- 1.8 Spectrophotometry.- The Role of Space Observations in the Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quantities.- Stellar Absolute Fluxes and Energy Distributions from 0.32 to 4.0 ?m.- (Related papers may be found on pp. 463 – 479.).- 1.9 Photometry.- Approaches to Photometric Calibrations.- Calibration in Temperature of Photometric Parameters.- The Calibration of Photometric Determinations of Abundance.- (Related papers may be found on pp. 485 – 565.).- 1.10 Model Atmospheres.- Fundamental Parameters and Models Of Stellar Atmospheres.- (Related papers may be found on pp. 569 – 581.).- 1.11 Data Banks and Summary.- Standard Values and Information in Data Banks.- Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quantities: Summary and Conclusions.- 2. Contributed Papers.- The Microfiche of Standard Stars.- Standard Astronomical Sources for the Space Telescope.- The Open Cluster M67 as A Fundamental Standard of Reference for Stellar Properties.- White Dwarf Candidates for Trigonometrical Parallax Determinations.- The Absolute Magnitudes of the Nearby Stars: Calibrations of Mean Luminosity Relations.- Fifteen Years of Statistical Parallaxes by the Principle of Maximum Likelihood.- An Empirical H? -Luminosity Calibration.- The Wilson-Bappu Effect for Mg II k-Line Emission Widths.- The Influence of an Outflowing Gaseous Stream on the Determination of Masses of Semidetached Binary Systems.- The Absolute Dimensions and Masses of IQ Persei.- Un Diagramme Fondamental Luminosite-Type Spectral Pour Les Etoiles Doubles.- Visual Binaries and the Calibration of the Main Sequence.- Rotational Properties and Synchronization in Early-Type Close Binaries.- UV Standard Stars by the Variable Procrustean Bed Approach.- MKJ and MSS Classification of Solar-Type Stars within 100 Parsecs of the Sun: Preliminary Results.- UV Spectral Classification of B Stars.- Spectral Anomalies in the Hyades and Pleiades and in Field Stars with Active Chromospheres.- A New Analysis of the Abundance Standards ? Herculis and ? Scorpii.- Elemental Abundances of Normal Sharp-Lined B and A Stars from Optical Region Analyses.- The Relation between the Anomalous Cn Strength, ? Cn, and [Fe/H] Abundances.- On the Gravity Determination from Carbon Star Spectra.- A Note on the Calibration of Effective Temperatures.- The Be II ? 3l30 A Region in the Spectra of Vega and Sirius.- Mount Wilson Spectra of Standard Stars.- About the Photometric Calibration of IUE High Resolution Spectra: Quantification of the Order-Overlap for the SWP Camera.- Determination des diametres stellaires par occultations. Technique de reduction.- Standard Stars for the Comparison of Methods of Diameter Determination.- A Comparison of Direct and Indirect Methods of Determination of Stellar Angular Diameters.- Problems Concerning Planck’s Blackbody Law.- Effective Temperatures of Stars with “Standard” Angular Diameters.- Faint Secondary Standards for Spectrophotometry and the Energy Distributions of Horizontal-Branch A-Stars.- High Precision Solar Radiation Data for ??3300 – 12500 Å.- The New Observing Station at the Pic Du Midi Observatory for the Absolute Calibration of Stellar Radiation.- The Status of the Absolute Calibration of Stellar Fluxes between 912 and 1200 Å.- Secondary Standard Stars in the Four-Color System.- A Preliminary Luminosity Calibration of the uvby,? Systems for Supergiant F-Type Stars.- On Photometric Standards and Color Transformation.- An Empirical Calibration of the Strömgren System for Late-Type Stars.- Analysis of uvby Photometry and Low-Resolution Spectrophotometry of B-Stars.- The Stability and Accuracy of the uvby System.- On the Calibration of the uvby Photometric System for Late-Type Stars.- Steps toward A Physical Calibration of UBV Photometry.- Calibration of Photometric Systems from Homogeneous Spectrophotometric Data.- An Improvement in the Visual Surface-Brightness Scale for B5 — F5 Main-Sequence Stars.- The Response Function S(?) of the UBV Color System — A Problem Again and again?.- On the Observational Determination of OB Standards.- An Effective Temperature Calibration of A uv-Visual Photometric Index for “Normal” Non-Supergiant Stars.- The Determination of Teff for Candidate Standard Stars Based on Comparison with Model Atmospheres.- The Effect of Metallicity and Pulsation on the Infrared Colors of Luminous M Giants.- The Temperature Scale of G and K Subgiants.- On the Accuracy of Infrared Photometry.- Mv and Teff of B-Type Stars as Derived from 13-Color Photometry.- The Estimation of the Electron Density ne with a Narrow-Band Photometric System Calibrated by Model Atmospheres.- A Reddening and Metallicity-Free Temperature Estimator for Late M Giants.- On the Homogenization of Photometric Data.- Spectroscopic Gravity Estimates for Late-Type Giants: Arcturus as an Example.- The Temperatures of G and K Stars.- The Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Disc, Investigated by Abundance Analysis of F Stars: A Progress Report.- LTE-Blanketed and Unblanketed Models for SDO Stars.- The Zero-Point of the IAU Standard Velocity System.- Precise Radial Velocities and Radial Velocity Standards.- Standard Pulsars: Probes for the Calibration of the Galactic Continuum Background Temperature and the Electron Density of the Interstellar Medium.- The Calibration of Stellar Spectra Used in Measurements of the Generalized Compton Shift.- Recent Trigonometric Parallax Measurements of Mk Late-Type Spectral Standard Giant Stars.- The Determination of Extinction and Temperature for the Central Star of the Planetary Nebula NGC 40.- The Microfiche of Standard Stars.- Resolution Passed by the Participants; Discussion of Suggestion by Code.- Closing Remarks by R. Hanbury Brown, President of the IAU.- Pictures of participants.- Random Quotes.- Name Index.- Object Index.