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Title: Variable Stars in the Local Group (IAU Colloquium 193)
Volume: 310 Year: 2004 View this Volume on ADS
Editors: Kurtz, Donald W.; Pollard, Karen R.
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Part 1.
Introductory Reviews		   
New Theoretical Developments in Stellar Pulsation 3 Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
The Nature of the Local Group 19 Aparicio, A.
Part 2.
What Variable Stars Tell Us About the Local Group, Including the Distance Scale		   
The DIRECT Project 33 Macri, L.M.
Using Local Group Galaxies to Investigate the Influence of Blending on Cepheid Distances and the Cosmological Distance Scale 41 Mochejska, B.J.; Macri, L.M.; Sasselov, D.D.; Stanek, K.Z.
Long Period Variables in the Magellanic Clouds: the OGLE/MACHO/2MASS/DENIS View 46 Groenewegen, M.
Period-K Magnitude Relations of Variable Stars in the LMC 50 Ita, Y.; Tanabe, T.; Matsunaga, N.; Nakada, Y.; Irsf/Sirius Team
Red Variables in the OGLE-II Database: First Results for the LMC 55 Kiss, L.L.; Bedding, T.R.
Distance Sale, Variable Stars and Stellar Populations in Local Group Galaxies 60 Clementini, G.; Baldacci, L.; Bragaglia, A.; Carretta, E.; di Fabrizio, L.; Gratton, R.G.; Greco, C.; Gullieuszik, M.; Held, E.V.; Maio, M.; Marconi, M.; Matonti, F.; Momany, Y.; Poretti, E.; Rizzi, L.; Saviane, I.; Taribello, E.
Variable Stars in M31 from the MEGA Survey 65 Alves, D.R.; Baltz, E.A.; Crotts, A.; Bergier, A.; Cseresnjes, P.; Gersch, A.
Variable Star Monitoring in Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxies 70 Snigula, J.; Goessl, C.; Hopp, U.; Barwig, H.
New Results on OGLE Cepheids and PL Relations in the LMC and SMC 75 Udalski, A.
Variable Stars from Two Surveys of Microlensing in M31 83 Crotts, A.P.S.; Boyle, R.P.; Corbally, C.J.; Mega Collaboration, The
The Araucaria Project - Improving Stellar Distance Indicators 87 Pietrzynski, G.; Gieren, W.
NGC 6822: Short Period Variable Stars, Stellar Population and Distance Scale 91 Baldacci, L.; Rizzi, L.; Clementini, G.; Held, E.V.
An Application of Bayesian Statistics to the Extragalactic Cepheid Distance Scale 95 Barnes, T.G., III; Moffett, T.J.; Jefferys, W.H.; Forestell, A.D.
Radial Velocities, Metallicities, and Distances of Cepheids in M31 and M33 99 Forestell, A.D.; Barnes, T.G., III; Sneden, C.; Moffett, T.J.
Light Curves and Absolute Magnitudes of Four Recent Fast LMC Novae 103 Hearnshaw, J.B.; Livingston, C.M.; Gilmore, A.C.; Kilmartin, P.M.
Dust Enshrouded AGB Stars in the LMC 107 Hinkle, K.H.; Joyce, R.R.; Do, T.
Part 3.
Variable Stars as Tracers of Different Stellar Populations--Galactic and Globular Clusters, LMC/SMC and Local Group Galaxies		   
RR Lyrae Variables in Globular Clusters and Nearby Galaxies 113 Catelan, M.
Multiperiodic RR Lyrae Stars in the Galactic Bulge and the SMC 124 Mizerski, T.
The Kinematics and Zero Point of the Log P – <MK> Relation for Galactic Field RR Lyrae Variables via Statistical Parallax 128 Dambis, A.K.; Vozyakova, O.V.
Short and Long Period Variable Stars in the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy 133 Monelli, M.; Walker, A.R.; Bono, G.; Buonanno, R.; Caputo, F.; Castellani, M.; Castellani, V.; Corsi, C.E.; Dall'Ora, M.; Pulone, L.; Marconi, M.; Ripepi, V.; Nonino, M.; Smith, H.A.; Stetson, P.B.
AGB Maser Stars as Tracers of Stellar Populations 138 Habing, H.J.
AGB Variables in Globular Clusters 144 Lebzelter, T.; Wood, P.; Hinkle, K.H.; Joyce, R.; Fekel, F.
AGB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds and in Other Members of the Local Group 149 Cioni, M.-R.L.
A Census of AGB Stars in the Milky Way and M31 Subgroups of Dwarf-spheroidal Galaxies 153 Kerschbaum, F.; Heiling, B.; Nowotny, W.; Spindler, Ch.; Olofsson, H.; Schwarz, H.E.
Age Dependence of the Vertical Distribution of Cepheids 158 Dambis, A.K.
A Variable Star Survey of the Open Cluster NGC 2126 162 Derekas, A.; Kiss, L.L.; Bedding, T.R.; Gaspar, A.; Sarneczky, K.; Szabo, Gy.M.; Varadi, M.; Kaspi, S.; Kiss, Cs.
Double-radial-mode SX Phoenicis Stars in the Globular Clusters NGC 5466 and M71 166 Jeon, Y.-B.; Lee, M.G.; Kim, S.-L.; Lee, H.
The Effect of Stellar Evolution on the Light Curves' Shapes of RR Lyrae Stars in M3 171 Jurcsik, J.
WWW-Based Fourier Coefficient Database - A Status Report 176 Morgan, S.M.
The Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud from First Overtone RR Lyrae Variables 180 Muzzin, A.V.; Clement, C.M.; Alves, D.R.; MACHO Collaboration, The
The Distribution of Novae in the Magellanic Clouds 184 Shida, R.Y.; Liller, W.
Near-Infrared photometry of the LMC cluster Reticulum 189 Dall'Ora, M.; Bono, G.; Storm, J.; Ripepi, V.; Testa, V.; Andreuzzi, G.; Buonanno, R.; Caputo, F.; Castellani, V.; Corsi, C.E.; Degl'Innocenti, S.; Marconi, G.; Marconi, M.; Monelli, M.
Part 4.
Early-type Stars: B, A and F Pulsators		   
g-mode Pulsations in Slowly Pulsating B Stars 195 de Cat, P.; Daszynska-Daszkiewicz, J.; Briquet, M.; Dupret, M.-A.; Scuflaire, R.; de Ridder, J.; Niemczura, E.; Aerts, C.
Latitude Distribution of Nonradial Pulsations in Rapidly Rotating B Stars 204 Jankov, S.; Mathias, P.; Domiciano de Souza, A., Jr.; Uytterhoeven, K.; Aerts, C.
Pulsational Velocity Fields in the Atmospheres of Two roAp Stars HR 1217 and Gamma Equ 208 Sachkov, M.; Ryabchikova, T.; Kochukhov, O.; Weiss, W.W.; Reegen, P.; Landstreet, J.D.
Pulsating White Dwarfs as Astrophysical Tools 212 Sullivan, D.J.
Asteroseismology of the beta Cep star nu Eri: Initial Results 221 Handler, G.; Aerts, C.; International Team Of 50 Astronomers
beta Cephei and SPB stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud 225 Kolaczkowski, Z.; Pigulski, A.; Soszynski, I.; Udalski, A.; Szymanski, M.; Kubiak, M.; Zebrun, K.; Pietrzynski, G.; Wozniak, P. R.; Szewczyk, O.; Wyrzykowski, L.; OGLE Team, the
Multisite Spectroscopic and Photometric Observations of the Pulsating sdB Star PG 1605+072 230 O'Toole, S.J.; Falter, S.; Heber, U.; Jeffery, C.S.; Dreizler, S.; Schuh, S.L.; MSST Team, the; WET Teams, the
HST/STIS Observations of sdBV Stars: Testing Diffusion and Pulsation Theory 234 O'Toole, S.J.; Heber, U.; Chayer, P.; Fontaine, G.; O'Donoghue, D.; Charpinet, S.
First Results of Mercator Observations of Variable B Stars 238 de Cat, P.; de Ridder, J.; Uytterhoeven, K.; Davignon, G.; Raskin, G.; Cuypers, J.; Schoenaers, C.; Daszynska-Daszkiewicz, J.; Aerts, C.; van Winckel, H.; Ausseloos, M.; Broeders, E.; de Meester, W.; Vanautgaerden, J.; van Malderen, R.; Vandenbussche, B.; Acke, B.; Decin, G.; Decin, L.; Kolenberg, K.; Maas, T.; de Ruyter, S.; Reyniers, M.; Reyniers, T.; van Kerckhoven, C.; Waelkens, C.
Pulsating Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 1817 242 Arentoft, T.; Freyhammer, L.M.; Bouzid, M.Y.; Sterken, C.; Frandsen, S.
Short-term Instabilities in gamma Velorum: A Search for Strange Modes in Variable Stars 247 Bentley, John; Cottrell, P.L.
The Periods of the beta Cephei star kappa Scorpii as Observed by WIRE 251 Cuypers, J.; Buzasi, D.; Uytterhoeven, K.
On Application of Multi-colour Potometry of delta Scuti Stars 255 Daszynska-Daszkiewicz, J.; Dziembowski, W.A.; Pamyatnykh, A.A.
Chemical Abundances of beta Cephei Stars from Low- and High-resolution UV Spectra 259 Daszynska-Daszkiewicz, J.; Niemczura, E.
First Results of Mercator Observations of Variable A and F Stars 263 de Ridder, J.; Cuypers, J.; de Cat, P.; Uytterhoeven, K.; Schoenaers, C.; Davignon, G.; Raskin, G.; Vanautgaerden, J.; Broeders, E.; de Meester, W.; van Malderen, R.; de Ruyter, S.; Vandenbussche, B.; Maas, T.; Kolenberg, K.; Reyniers, M.; Decin, G.; Acke, B.; Ausseloos, M.; Aerts, C.; van Winckel, H.; Waelkens, C.
Mode Selection Mechanism in B-Type Pulsators: Observational Clues 267 Jerzykiewicz, M.
Nonadiabatic Observables in Main Sequence delta Scuti Stars 271 Moya, A.; Garrido, R.; Dupret, M.-A.
Spectroscopy of southern delta Scuti stars 275 Cropp, M.; Pollard, K.R.; Skuljan, J.
Re-classification of ROTSE-I delta Scuti Stars 279 Jin, H.; Kim, S.-L.; Lee, C.-U.; Lee, D.-J.; Kim, K.-S.
Direct Detection of Multiple Periods in Variable Stars 283 Schoenaers, C.; Cuypers, J.
Line Profile Variations in gamma Equ: A Puzzle 287 Shibahashi, H.; Kurtz, D.; Kambe, E.; Gough, D.
Part 5.
Red Giants, Miras, Post-AGB Stars and Proto-Planetary Nebulae		   
Properties of AGB Variables in the Intermediate-age Cluster NGC 419 in the SMC 295 Tanabé, T.; Ita, Y.; Matsunaga, N.; Nakada, Y.; IRSF/SIRIUS Team
AGB Variables as Distance Indicators 304 Feast, M.
Metallicity Effects in Mira Variables: a Model Study 313 Scholz, M.; Wood, P.R.
Red supergiants in the Small Magellanic Cloud: The Effects of Metallicity on Narrow-band Classification Indices 317 Wing, R.F.; Walker, K.M.; MacConnell, D.J.; Costa, E.
The Long Secondary Periods in Semi-regular Variables 322 Wood, P.R.; Olivier, A.E.; Kawaler, S.D.
Interferometry of Pulsating Red Giants from 0.65 to 3.5 Microns 327 Ireland, M.; Tithill, P.; Robertson, G.; Bedding, T.; Jacob, A.; Monnier, J.; Danchi, W.
Observational Poperties of Red Variables in the LMC 332 Takeuti, M.; Noda, S.; Abe, F.; Bond, I.A.; Dodd, R.J.; Hearnshaw, J.B.; Honda, M.; Honma, M.; Jugaku, J.; Kan-Ya, Y.; Kato, Y.; Kilmartin, P.M.; Matsubara, Y.; Masuda, K.; Muraki, Y.; Nakamura, T.; Ohnishi, K.; Reid, M.; Rattenbury, N.J.; Saito, To.; Sato, H.; Sekiguchi, M.; Skuljan, J.; Sullivan, D.J.; Sumi, T.; Yamada, R.; Yanagisawa, T.; Yock, P.C.M.; Yoshizawa, M.
Time Variations of IR Spectra and Dust Properties in Carbon-rich Mira Variables 336 Sung, H.-I.; Lee, S.-G.
Spectroscopic and Photometric Properties of Red Stars in the Bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud 340 Lloyd Evans, T.
Spectra of RV Tauri stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud 344 Lloyd Evans, T.; Pollard, K.R.
Multiperiodicity in Pulsating Red Giants 348 Percy, J.R.; Bakos, A.G.; Besla, G.; Hou, D.; Velocci, V.; Henry, G.W.
Spectroscopic and Photometric Monitoring of Southern Post-AGB Stars 353 Pooley, D.J.; Cottrell, P.L.; Pollard, K.R.; Albrow, M.D.
Period Changes in Miras 357 Koen, C.; Lombard, F.
Part 6.
Binary Stars and Pulsation		   
Eclipsing Binaries in Local Group Galaxies: Physical Properties of the Stars and Calibration of the Zero-point of the Cosmic Distance Scale 363 Guinan, E.F.; Ribas, I.; Fitzpatrick, E.L.
An Overtone Cepheid Variable in an LMC Eclipsing Binary 372 Lepischak, D.; Welch, D.L.
Cepheid Masses: FUSE Observations of S Mus 377 Remage Evans, N.; Massa, D.; Fullerton, A.; Sonneborn, G.; Iping, R.
Pulsating White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variables: The Marriage of ZZ Cet and Dwarf Nova 382 Warner, B.; Woudt, P.A.
The Be Star Omicron Cassiopeiae 387 Koubsky, P.; Ak, H.; Harmanec, P.; Yang, S.; Bozic, H.
Precessing Accretion Discs in Binary Systems 391 Retter, A.; Liu, A.; Bos, M.
High Resolution Spectroscopy of the Triple System 20 Leo 395 Fremat, Y.; Lampens, P.; Hensberge, H.; Arentoft, T.; de Cat, P.; Garrido, R.; Parrao, L.; Pena, J.H.; Mathias, P.; van Cauteren, P.
Preliminary Photometric Study of a Pulsating Component in the Eclipsing Binary AB Per 399 Kim, S.-L.; Kwon, S.-G.; Lee, D.J.; Lee, C.-U.; Jin, H.; Lee, J.W.
A Spectroscopic Study of Southern Binary Cepheids 403 Petterson, O.K.L.; Albrow, M.D.; Cottrell, P.L.; Fokin, A.
Photometry of Eclipsing Binary Stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds 407 Bayne, G.P.; Tobin, W.; Pritchard, J.D.; Pollard, K.R.; Albrow, M.D.
Part 7.
Chemical Composition of Variable Stars		   
Element Stratification in Main Sequence Stars and its Effect on Stellar Oscillations 413 Vauclair, S.
Seismic Tests of Accretion in the Central Stars of Planetary Systems 422 Bazot, M.; Vauclair, S.
The Effect of Metallicity on the Cepheid Period-luminosity Relation 426 Romaniello, M.; Primas, F.; Mottini, M.; Groenewegen, M.
The Chemical Composition and Circumstellar Environment of the Variable Star QY Sge 430 Goswami, A.; Kameswara Rao, N.; Lambert, D.L.
Determining the Metallicity of Cepheid Stars in the SMC, LMC and the Galaxy 435 Mottini, M.; Primas, F.; Romaniello, M.; Groenewegen, M.
Decoupling of Helium in the Winds of Chemically Peculiar Stars 439 Kubat, J.; Krticka, J.
Part 8.
New Theoretical Developments in Stellar Pulsation and Variability		   
Theory of Magneto-acoustic Modes in roAp Stars 445 Bigot, L.
Nonlinear Radial Pulsations for Hot 20-MSolar models 453 Austin, B.A.; Guzik, J.A.; Despain, K.M.; Templeton, M.R.
Non-adiabatic Asteroseismology of Near-main Sequence Variable Stars 458 Dupret, M.-A.
Does Extreme Mixing Improve Frequency Agreement for delta Scuti Stars? 462 Guzik, J.A.; Austin, B.A.; Bradley, P.A.; Cox, A.N.
Mode Identification Using Photometry and Spectroscopy 466 de Ridder, J.; Aerts, C.; Dupret, M.-A.
Non-adiabatic Seismic Study of the Thin Convective Envelope of delta Scuti Stars 470 Dupret, M.-A.; Grigahcene, A.; Garrido, R.; Montalban, J.; Gabriel, M.; Scuflaire, R.
The First Theoretical gamma Doradus Instability Strip 474 Kaye, A.B.; Warner, P.B.; Guzik, J.A.
Eigenfunctions of Axisymmetric p-modes in the Presence of a Dipole Magnetic Field: Observational Consequences 478 Saio, H.; Gautschy, A.
Application of the Riccati Method to the Adiabatic Oscillations of Stars 483 Takata, M.; Loeffler, W.
Part 9.
Evolutionary and Pulsation Properties of Variable Stars		   
Evolutionary Properties of Intermediate-mass Stars 489 Cassisi, S.
Nonradial Pulsations in Classical Cepheids of the Magellanic Clouds 498 Moskalik, P.; Kolaczkowski, Z.; Mizerski, T.
The Period-Radius Relation: Classical Cepheids and RR Lyrae Stars 502 Marconi, M.; Bono, G.; Nordgren, T.E.
Analysis of Long-Term Single-Site Observations of the Pulsating DB White Dwarf GD 358 506 Bradley, P.A.
R Coronae Borealis Stars 511 Skuljan, L.; Cottrell, P.L.
VINCI/VLTI Interferometric Observations of Cepheids 520 Nardetto, N.; Kervella, P.; Mourard, D.; Bersier, D.; Coude Du Foresto, V.
The Luminosities of Horizontal Branches and RR Lyrae Stars in Globular Clusters 525 McNamara, D.H.; Rose, M.B.; Brown, P.J.; Ketcheson, D.I.; Maxwell, J.E.; Smith, K.M.; Wooley, R.C.
Magellanic Cloud Novae and the Peak Magnitude vs Rate-of-Decline Relationship 530 Liller, W.; Shida, R.Y.
Magnetic Models can not Explain the Blazhko Effect in RR Lyrae Stars 535 Chadid, M.; Wade, G.A.; Shorlin, S.L.S.; Landstreet, J.D.
A Multi-site Study of the Extreme Helium Star V2076 Oph 539 Wright, D.J.; Cottrell, P.L.; Lynas-Gray, A.E.; Kilkenny, D.; Shobbrook, R.
Dynamical Phasing of Type II Cepheids 543 McSaveney, J.A.; Pollard, K.R.; Cottrell, P.L.
The Galactic Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation from Hipparcos Parallaxes and Proper Motions 547 Heacox, W.D.
Part 10.
Our Future in Space		   
Asteroseismology with COROT 553 Vauclair, G.
The Study of delta Scuti Stars in the Transition Era from Ground-based to Space Photometry 560 Garrido, R.; Poretti, E.
Preparing the COROT Space Mission: Building a Photometric and Variability Database of Stars in its Field of View 564 Amado, P.J.; Garrido, R.; Poretti, E.; Michel, E.
Part 11.
Data Analysis and Reduction Techniques		   
The Reliability of Echelle Spectroscopy in Hot Rotating Star Research 571 Skoda, P.; Slechta, M.
HRSP - A Dedicated Echelle Reduction Software Package for Hercules 575 Skuljan, J.
Part 12.
Meeting Summary		   
IAU Colloquium 193 - A Personal View 581 Kawaler, S.D.
Photographs   
Miscellaneous Photographs 588 Kurtz, D.; Pollard, K.