Letters of Intent received in 2016

LoI 2018-1937
Binary stars through the Universe

Date: 20 August 2018 to 24 August 2018
Category: Non-GA Symposium
Location: Vienna, Austria
Contact: Zhanwen Han (zhanwenhan@ynao.ac.cn)
Coordinating division: Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
Other divisions: Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
Co-Chairs of SOC: Andrej Prsa (Villanova University)
Christopher Tout (University of Cambridge)
Philipp Podsiadlowski (University of Oxford)
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Topics

big data (Kepler, GAIA, etc.)
binary formation,
binary evolution,
binary population synthesis,
double stellar black holes, double neutron stars as gravitational wave sources,
supernovae in binaries,
planets around binary systems,
Transient sources,
nucleosynthesis in binary stars,
binary stars in the SED analysis of early-type galaxies.

 

Rationale

The last IAU symposium about binary stars is IAUS 240 "Binary Stars as Critical Tools and Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics" during the GA 2006.
Significant progress has been achieved over the last decade, and GAIA will provide big data for binary studies, while aLIGO has challenged the cannonical binary evolution theory. It is timely to have a symposium on binary stars at Vienna GA.