Massive Stars in Interactinb Binaries

by Nicole St-Louis (Editor), Anthony F.J. Moffat (Editor)

Their luminosity drives hot, strong winds across the ecology of the universe. But when they are binary, they also produce exotic phenomena not possible when these massive stars are on their own. These proceedings from the August 2004 conference held in Québec, which includes 77 articles as well as transcriptions of the informal talks held after their presentation, describe these phenomena, methods of determination of general physical properties of massive starts and binary statistics. Along with two very useful review articles general topics include inventories of massive stars in interactive binaries, basic properties of massive single and binary stars, interacting winds (including high energy/non thermal radio, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, models, and special objects with strong winds), evolution of massive binaries (including orbit and spin evaluation, Roche-Lobe overflow, common-envelope evolution, Wolf-Rayet binaries, and x-ray binaries), endpoints of massive binary systems, and massive binaries in galaxies and dense clusters. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

748 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2007