Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 72, held in Haifa, Israel, August 9-13, 1982

Observational and theoretical issues of interacting binarieswas the topic of the 22nd of the renowned Advanced Course ofthe Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. The threecontributions by outstanding experts collected in this bookdeal with observations, symbiotic stars, cataclysmicvariables, massive binaries and X-ray binaries thus fillinga gap in the existing literature. The articles review thestate of the art and address both students and researchers.The accessible and didactic approach makes the book avaluable source for future work on interacting binary starswhose study is...

Observational and theoretical issues of interacting binarieswas the topic of the 22nd of the renowned Advanced Course ofthe Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. The threecontributions by outstanding experts collected in this bookdeal with observations, symbiotic stars, cataclysmicvariables, massive binaries and X-ray binaries thus fillinga gap in the existing literature. The articles review thestate of the art and address both students and researchers.The accessible and didactic approach makes the book avaluable source for future work on interacting binary starswhose study is...

Colloquium No. 72 of the International Astronomical Union covered many observations and theoretical developments in the field of cataclysmic variables and related objects. Much time was devoted to discussions and we made an effort to include as much of the discussions material as possible in the proceedings. The Local Organizing Committee would like to thank; The International Astronomical Union for travel grants The Israel Academy of Sciences for financial support The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology for financial support and assistance Bank Leumi Le-Israel for a generous support We...