IAU Special Sessions (GA)
SpS5: The IR view of massive stars: the main sequence and beyond
Start date/time
August 23, 2012
End date/time
August 24, 2012
Place
Beijing,
China Nanjing
Contact
Margaret Hanson
hansonmm@ucmail.uc.edu
Event website
http://www.gaphe.ulg.ac.be/IAU_XXVIII/index.html
Coordinating Division
SOC Chair: Yaël Nazé (Belgium)
SOC Members: Jura Borrisova (Chile), Margaret Hanson (United States), Fabrice Martins (France), Paco Najarro (Spain), Barbara Whitney (United States)
Editor of Proceedings: Yaël Nazé (Belgium)
Topics:
- Obscured and distant clusters, with subtopics
- massive stars near the Galactic Centre
- newly discovered young clusters
- distant massive stars
- Stellar and wind parameters, with subtopics
- improvement in atomic data
- results from atmosphere modelling
- results from interferometry studies
- Matter ejection and feedback, with subtopics
- observed LBV and WR nebulae
- implications on the mass-loss evolution
- dust in SNe
