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Title: |
The Nature of V838 Mon and its Light Echo
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Volume: |
363
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Year: |
2007
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Editors: |
Corradi, Romano L.M.; Munari, Ulisse
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Synopsis: |
The 2002 outburst of V838 Monocerotis was one of the major hits in stellar astrophysics in recent years. This object is the most studied member of a class of rare stars undergoing tremendous explosions, so powerful as to make V838 Mon at peak brightness one of the most luminous stars in the whole Local Group (M v = −10 mag). After the outburst, V838 Mon expanded to hypergiant dimensions while cooling down to the brown-dwarf temperture regime. The progenitor of V838 Mon must have been massive and young, given the presence of a normal B3V companion and its likely location inside a young stellar cluster. In addition, the energetic outburst and the presence of a large amount of material around V838 Mon produced a sensational light echo, the first in our Galaxy for many decades. This light echo has become so large and bright as to be easily observable with backyard telescopes, while the Hubble Space Telescope followed the details of its spectacular evolution (see the front cover picture). The story is not concluded yet, and as this volume goes into press V838 Mon is calling once again the attention of the astronomical community with new unexpected events, like the flaring of an extremely rich and intense iron emission line spectrum at the end of 2006. This volume collects and discusses what we know so far of this rare and intriguing star, and hopefully will pave the way to future, detailed studies that will incorporate the analysis of the advanced evolution of V838 Mon.
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ISBN: |
978-1-583812-31-0
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eISBN:
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978-1-58381-297-6
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Paper Title |
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Authors |
Cover |
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Volume 363 Cover |
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Corradi, R.L.M.; Munari, U. |
Front Matter |
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Volume 363 Front Matter |
1 |
Corradi, R.L.M.; Munari, U. |
Conference Photo |
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Volume 363 Conference Photograph |
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Corradi, R.L.M.; Munari, U. |
Part 1. The Outburst |
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Optical/NIR Photometric Evolution |
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Henden, A.A. |
The Spectral Evolution of V838 Mon |
13 |
Munari, U.; Navasardyan, H.; Villanova, S. |
V838 Monocerotis: Spitzer Observations |
26 |
Ashok, N.; Su, K.Y.L.; Misselt, K.A.; Banerjee, D.P.K. |
Infrared Observations of V838 Mon |
32 |
Rushton, M.T.; Geballe, T.R.; Evans, A.N.; van Loon, J.Th.; Smalley, B.; Eyres, S.P.S. |
Recent Infrared Spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis and the Current Model |
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Lynch, D.K.; Rudy, R.J.; Russell, R.W.; Mazuk, S.; Venturini, C.C.; Bernstein, L.S.; Puetter, R.C.; Perry, R.B.; Skinner, M.A. |
A Chandra Observation of V838 Mon a Year after the Second Outburst |
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Orio, M. |
SAAO Observations of V838 Mon |
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Crause, L.A. |
Discovery of the Second Outburst and Further Observations of V838 Mon in the Czech Republic |
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Skoda, P.; Smelcer, L.; Brat, L.; Pejcha, O.; Sobotka, P. |
Part 2. Circumstellar and Interstellar Medium, Ejecta |
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Polarimetric Evolution of V838 Mon |
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Desidera, S.; Siviero, A.; Giro, E.; Munari, U.; Henden, A.A.; Efimov, Y. |
The Spectropolarimetric Evolution of V838 Monocerotis |
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Wisniewski, J.P. |
SiO Maser Emission in V838 Mon |
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Deguchi, S.; Matsunaga, N.; Fukushi, H. |
Variable SiO Maser Emission from V838 Mon |
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Claussen, M.J.; Bond, H.E.; Starrfield, S.; Healy, K. |
Use of the BT2 Water Line List to Determine the Rotational Temperature and H2O Column Density of the Circumstellar Envelope on Five Dates |
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Barber, R.J.; Banerjee, D.P.K.; Ashok, N.M.; Tennyson, J. |
Observations of V838 Mon and the Nearby Region in the CO J = 1→0, 2→1 and 3→2 Transitions |
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Kaminski, T.; Miller, M.; Szczerba, R.; Tylenda, R. |
What Infrared Spectroscopy of Carbon Monoxide Tells us about V838 Mon |
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Geballe, T.R.; Evans, A.; van Loon, J.Th.; Smalley, B.; Rushton, M.R.; Eyres, S.P.S. |
Part 3. Light Echo: Observations and Theory |
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An Introduction to Scattered-Light Echoes |
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Sugerman, B.E.K. |
Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Light Echo around V838 Monocerotis |
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Bond, H.E. |
Light Echoes in Type Ia Supernovae |
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Patat, F. |
Light Echoes of SNe in the LMC |
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Rest, A.; Suntzeff, R. C.; Smith, K. O. |
HST Polarimetry of the V838 Mon Light Echo |
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Sparks, W.B. |
USNOFS Observations of the Light Echo Evolution |
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Henden, A.A. |
The Light Echo Evolution from ING Observations |
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Santander-Garcia, M.; Corradi, R.L.M. |
Photometry of V838 Mon and its Light Echo |
174 |
Liimets, T.; Kolka, I.; Kipper, T. |
Near-IR Scattered Light in V838 Monocerotis |
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Fukushi, H.; Matsunaga, N.; Tanabe, T.; Nakada, Y.; Deguchi, S.; Ishihara, A.; Kusakabe, N.; Tamura, M. |
A NewMethod for Extracting Light Echo Fluxes |
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Newman, A.B.; Rest, A. |
Part 4. Historical Lightcurve and Related Objects |
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V838 Mon and M31-RV: The Stellar Populations Angle |
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Siegel, M.H.; Bond, H.E. |
V838 Mon, V4332 Sgr, ... and Relatives in Our Galaxy? |
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Kimeswenger, S. |
Comparative Analysis of Blue Spectra of the Peculiar Red Novae V838 Mon and V4332 Sgr after their Outbursts |
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Barsukova, E.; Goranskij, V.P.; Abolmasov, P.K.; Fabrika, S.N. |
Historical Light Curves of Peculiar Red Novae V838 Mon and V4332 Sgr |
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Goranskij, V.P.; Metlova, N.V.; Shugarov, S.Yu.; Zharova, A.V.; Barsukova, E.A.; Kroll, P. |
Part 5. Properties, Evolutionary Status and Outburst Mechanisms |
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Modelling the Spectrum and SED of V838 Mon |
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Pavlenko, Y.; Kaminsky, B.; Lyubchik, Y.; Yakovina, L. |
Chemical Composition of V838 Mon |
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Kipper, T.; Skoda, P. |
Spectral Variability and Binary Nature of V838 Mon |
235 |
Kolka, I.; Kipper, T. |
A Young Open Cluster Surrounding V838 Monocerotis |
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Bond, H.E.; Afsar, M. |
Evolution Models for V838 Mon: Born-again Binaries and Others |
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Lawlor, T.M. |
The Evolution of Massive Stars in the Context of V838 Monocerotis |
257 |
Hirschi, R. |
Plausibility of the Planet-Engulfing Scenario for V838 Mon from the Current Knowledge of Extrasolar Planets |
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Desidera, S. |
The Planets-Capture Model of V838 Mon |
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Retter, A.; Zhang, B.; Siess, L.; Levinson, A.; Marom, A. |
Modelling V838 Mon as a Mergeburst Object |
280 |
Soker, N.; Tylenda, R. |
Back Matter |
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Volume 363 Back Matter |
291 |
Corradi, R.L.M.; Munari, U. |
Photographs |
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Volume 363 Photographs |
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Corradi, R.L.M.; Munari, U. |
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