Mass-Losing Pulsating Stars and their Circumstellar Matter

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Recent Results of Massive Photometry

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Sequence of Mass-Losing AGB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds

      • P. R. Wood

      Pages 3-10

   3. Three Aspects of Red Giant Studies in the Magellanic Clouds

      • Maria-Rosa L. Cioni

      Pages 11-18

   4. Luminosities of AGB Variables

      • Patricia Whitelock

      Pages 19-26

   5. Photometric Properties of Long-Period Variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud

      • Sachiyo Noda, Mine Takeuti

      Pages 27-34

   6. Stellar Sources in the Isogal Intermediate Bulge Fields

      • D. K. Ojha, A. Omont, ISOGAL Team

      Pages 35-38

   7. GAIA: AGB Stars as Tracers of Star Formation Histories in the Galaxy and Beyond

      • Arūnas Kučinskas, Lennart Lindegren, Toshihiko Tanabé, Vladas Vansevičius

      Pages 39-42

   8. Characteristics of AGB Stars in the Isogal, Macho and Other Databases

      • I. S. Glass

      Pages 43-48

3. Pulsation and Properties of Mass-Losing Stars

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Structure and Evolution of AGB Stars: Current Understandings and Beyond

      • Masayuki Y. Fujimoto, Takuma Suda

      Pages 51-58

   3. Nonlinear Properties of the Semi-Regular Variable Stars

      • J. Robert Buchler, Z. Kolláth

      Pages 59-66

   4. Regular and Irregular Pulsations of Luminous Blue Variables

      • Ernst A. Dorfi, Alfred Gautschy

      Pages 67-74

   5. Mass-Losing and Pulsating AGB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds

      • Martin Groenewegen

      Pages 75-82

   6. The Galactic Kinematics of Mira Variables

      • Michael Feast

      Pages 83-89

   7. Period Evolution in Mira Variables

      • Albert A. Zijlstra, Mikako Matsuura, Timothy R. Bedding

      Pages 91-94

   8. Chaotic Pulsations in Irregular Variables

      • G. Ambika, M. Takeuti, A. K. Kembhavi

      Pages 95-98

   9. Time Dependent Modelling of Mass Loss on the AGB

      • Yvonne Simis

      Pages 99-102

   10. Asymmetric Mass-Loss on the AGB: Examples from IRAS Data

       • R. Weinberger, B. Aryal

       Pages 103-106

   11. The Extended Atmosphere and Evolution of the RV Tauri Star, R Scuti

       • M. Matsuura, A. A. Zijlstra, I. Yamamura, T. R. Bedding

       Pages 107-110

Editing the proceedings of a scientific meeting is not an easy task. Sometimes people who give an excellent talk do not send the manuscript by the deadline. However, this time, thanks to the punctuality of all the participants, we have this excellent volume for the workshop on mass­ losing pulsating stars and their circumstellar matter prepared in time. Almost all of the oral presentations including the summary are collected in this volume. We regret that we cannot put in this volume a few posters that we failed to receive before the editorial work. The workshop was planned as a small meeting with less than fifty attendants because the city of Sendai was far from the most of the active institutions. However, the number of submitted papers exceeded the SOC's expectation; many interesting contributions had to be scheduled in the poster session. Still, the oral sessions were so tight that many participants might have felt frustrated for the shortage of discussions. The organizers of the workshop have to apologize to the attendants for the inconvenience caused from such a happy underestimate about the size of the workshop.

• Astrometry
• Bulge
• Galaxy
• space astrometry
• stellar

"AGB variables are far more interesting than I had previously thought. I don't hesitate to recommend this book, not only to those specifically involved with those stars, but also to those in the related fields of pulsation and/or mass loss, and even to a more-general readership."
(Rich Townsend in The Observatory, 124:1178 (February 2004)

• Kiso Observatory, University of Tokyo, Agematsu, Japan

  Y. Nakada

• National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Japan

  M. Honma

• Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

  M. Seki

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