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Title: |
370 Years of Astronomy in Utrecht
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Volume: |
470
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Year: |
2013
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View this Volume on ADS
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Editors: |
Marion Wijburg
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Synopsis: |
370 YEARS OF ASTRONOMY IN UTRECHT
Hotel Leeuwenhorst, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
2–5 April 2012
In April 2012, the astronomical Institute at Utrecht organized a 4-day international conference to highlight 370 years of achievements of the Utrecht Observatory, which was founded in 1642. The conference, which was attended by 146 people, also presented an overview of the status, problems, and prospects of the primary research topics being studied at the Institute today.
These proceedings start with a short section on the history of Utrecht Observatory, from its original purpose to provide sea-faring Holland with accurate celestial maps, to the development of quantitative spectral analysis by Marcel Minnaert, the start of space research, and the rapid growth of solar physics, stellar physics and high energy astrophysics in the Netherlands.
The main research themes at the Astronomical Institute Utrecht are highlighted in six sections:
- solar physics,
- stellar evolution,
- plasma physics,
- high energy astrophysics,
- star clusters and galaxy evolution, and
- astronomical instrumentation development.
Each topic is introduced in a review paper that discusses the current status and main questions of the field, followed by several papers on specific studies. It contains papers on magnetic fields on the sun, mass loss and its effect on stellar evolution, luminous blue variable stars, binary evolution, low-mass X-ray binaries, pulsars, supernovae, cosmic rays, gamma ray bursts, star clusters, and instrumentation for high resolution solar imaging and polarimetry.
The 20 reviews, 48 topical papers, and 11 poster papers provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art research in the fields listed above, with frequent emphasis on contributions of the Astronomical Institute Utrecht. The book is suitable for researchers and graduate students interested in solar and stellar physics and high energy astrophysics.
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ISBN: |
978-1-58381-824-4
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eISBN:
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978-1-58381-825-1
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Paper Title |
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Authors |
Front Matter |
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Front Cover |
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Front Matter |
1 |
Pugliese, G.; de Koter, A.; Wijburg, M. |
Conference Photos |
2 |
Pugliese, G.; de Koter, A.; Wijburg, M. |
Session I. Introduction |
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Sterrekundig Instituut Utrecht: The Last Years |
3 |
Keller, C. U. |
The Utrecht Astronomical Institute, 1632 to 2012 |
15 |
de Jager, C. |
Session II. Solar Physics |
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Solar prominences: formation, force balance, internal dynamics |
37 |
Keppens, R.; Xia, C.; Chen, P.; Blokland, J. W. S. |
Twists to Solar Spicules |
49 |
Rutten, R. J. |
The relation between Magnetic Energy and Helicity and their accumulation in Eruptive Solar Active Regions |
59 |
Tziotziou, K.; Georgoulis, M. K.; Raouafi, N.-E. |
Measuring Magnetic Fields in the Solar Atmosphere |
65 |
de Wijn, A. G. |
Alfvén Waves and the Heating of Solar Coronal Loops |
77 |
Asgari-Targhi, M.; van Ballegooijen, A. A. |
Eyes on the Sun: Solar Instrumentation |
83 |
Uitenbroek, H. |
Session III. Stellar Evolution |
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Mass Loss and Evolution of Massive Stars |
97 |
Lamers, H. J. G. L. M. |
First discoveries in the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey |
111 |
de Koter, A.; Sana, H.; Evans, C.; Besthenlehner, J. M.; Taylor, W. D. |
The mass-loss dominated lives of the Most Massive Stars |
121 |
Vink, J. S. |
28 years of Luminous Blue Variables |
129 |
Weis, K. |
Binary population synthesis and SNIa rates |
135 |
Toonen, S.; Nelemans, G.; Bours, M.; Portegies Zwart, S. |
Multiplicity of massive O stars and evolutionary implications |
141 |
Sana, H.; de Mink, S. E.; de Koter, A.; Langer, N.; Evans, C. J.; Gieles, M.; Gosset, E.; Izzard, R. G.; Le Bouquin, J.-B.; Schneider, F. R. N. |
Progenitor systems of Type Ibc supernovae |
147 |
Yoon, S.-C. |
Ultra-compact Binaries: relevance and role of Utrecht |
153 |
Nelemans, G.; van Haaften, L. |
Gone with the wind: The elusive origin of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor stars |
159 |
Abate, C.; Pols, O. R.; Izzard, R. G.; Mohamed, S.; de Mink, S. E. |
POPCORN: A comparison of binary population synthesis codes |
163 |
Claeys, J. S. W.; Toonen, S.; Mennekens, N. |
Long-term Spectroscopic Monitoring of Cool Hypergiants HR 8752, IRC+10420, and 6 Cas near the Yellow Evolutionary Void |
167 |
Lobel, A.; de Jager, K.; Nieuwenhuijzen, H. |
On the hydrodynamics of colliding circumstellar bubbles |
171 |
van Marle, A.-J.; Meliani, Z.; Marcowith, A. |
Contributions to Ultraviolet Space Astronomy from Groningen and Utrecht |
175 |
Morton, D. C. |
Hydrogen or Helium atmospheres for quiescent accreting neutron stars in globular clusters? |
181 |
Servillat, M. |
Session IV. Plasma Astrophysics |
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The Stability of Cosmic Ray Precursors |
187 |
Achterberg, A. |
Gravitational and Magnetohydrodynamic Waves |
197 |
Kuijpers, J. |
Magnetic field amplification by cosmic rays in supernova remnants |
209 |
Schure, K. M.; Bell, A. R. |
Neutrinos and High Energy Astrophysical Accelerators |
215 |
Pugliese, G.; Achterberg, A.; Hanson, K. |
The Earth's magnetotail as a plasma physics laboratory: A Cluster perspective |
227 |
Volwerk, M. |
Session V. High Energy Astrophysics |
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The contribution of Utrecht to the study of Compact Stars in Globular Clusters |
233 |
Verbunt, F. |
The XMM-Newton Surveys of the Magellanic Clouds |
245 |
Bomans, D. J. |
X-ray sources in Galactic old Open Star Clusters |
251 |
van den Berg, M. |
Detecting donor star signatures in low mass X-ray binaries |
263 |
Cornelisse, R. |
Supernova Remnants as the Sources of Galactic Cosmic Rays |
269 |
Vink, J. |
Obscuration of Supersoft X-ray Sources in Circumbinary Material—A Way to Hide Type Ia Supernova Progenitors? |
281 |
Nielsen, M.; Dominik, C.; Nelemans, G.; Voss, R. |
Session VI. Stellar Cluster and Galaxy Evolution |
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Young Massive Clusters and Their Relation to Star Formation |
287 |
Bastian, N. |
Star clusters and Extragalactic Stellar Populations |
299 |
Larsen, S. S. |
The Snapshot Hubble U-band Cluster Survey; A cluster complex in NGC 2146 |
309 |
Adamo, A.; Smith, L. J. |
Spatially and Temporally Resolved SFR-Σgas
Relation with Massive Stars in the Galaxy |
315 |
Chen, C.-H. R.; Messineo, M.; Menten, K.; Wyrowski, F. |
Star formation in the Local Group |
321 |
De Marchi, G.; Panagia, N. |
Globular cluster systems of early-type galaxies—do we understand them? |
327 |
Richtler, T. |
Mass Loss of Stars in Star Clusters: an Energy Source for Dynamical Evolution |
339 |
Gieles, M. |
Collateral Damage: the Implications of Utrecht Star Cluster Astrophysics for Galaxy Evolution |
347 |
Kruijssen, J. M. D. |
A multi-scale approach to simulate the Galaxy |
353 |
Portegies Zwart, S. |
Age Spread in Galactic star forming region W3 Main |
367 |
Bik, A.; Henning, Th.; Stolte, A.; Brandner, W.; Gouliermis, D. A.; Gennaro, M.; Pasquali, A.; Rochau, B.; Beuther, H.; Ageorges, N.; Seifert, W.; Wang, Y.; Kudryavtseva, N. |
Microblazar Properties of LS I +61°303 |
373 |
Massi, M.; Ros, E.; Zimmermann, L.; Torricelli-Ciamponi, G. |
Halo white dwarfs in the Gaia era |
377 |
van Oirschot, P.; Nelemans, G.; Pols, O.; Helmi, A.; Tolstoy, E.; Brown, A. G. A. |
Session VII. Instrumentation |
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Kees Zwaan, open principle, future of high-resolution solar telescopes |
381 |
Hammerschlag, R. H.; Bettonvil, F. C. M. |
Utrecht and the European Solar Telescope |
389 |
Bettonvil, F. C. M.; EST team |
The polarimeters for HARPS and X-shooter |
401 |
Snik, F.; HARPSpol team; X-shooter-pol team |
Observing Circumstellar Neighbourhoods with the Extreme Polarimeter |
407 |
Rodenhuis, M.; Canovas, H.; Jeffers, S. V.; Min, M.; Keller, C. U. |
Utrecht and Galactic Radio Astronomy |
413 |
van Woerden, H. |
Session VIII. Outreach and Education |
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Astronomy in the classroom—Young Bright Stars |
421 |
Heesakkers, K. |
The Anton Pannekoek Observatory in Amsterdam: an observatory for students |
425 |
Henrichs, H. F. |
Session IX. Summary |
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Conference Summary and Concluding Remarks |
431 |
van den Heuvel, E. P. J. |
Session X. FinalWords |
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Final words |
441 |
de Jager, C. |
Back Matter |
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Object Index |
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Pugliese, G.; de Koter, A.; Wijburg, M. |
Back Matter |
446 |
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