Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 10, Septiembre 2000

Series Editor: Silvia Torres-Peimbert
Associate Editor: William Henney

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The Seventh Texas-México Conference on Astrophysics: Flows, Blows and Glows

Austin, Texas, April 6-8, 2000
Proceedings Editors: William H. Lee and Silvia Torres-Peimbert

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THIS ISSUE IN ADS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
G. Shields, W. H. Lee & S. Torres-Peimbert
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
PARTICIPANTS

IONIZED NEBULAE

• The Orion Nebula: An Elephant for the Blind
  C. R. O'Dell
• Planetary nebulae with [WR] nuclei. A statistical approach.
  M. Peña, G. Stasinska & S. Medina
• The O II Recombination Line Abundance Problem in Planetary Nebulae
  D. R. Garnett & H. L. Dinerstein
• Energy implications of temperature fluctuations
  L. Binette, V. Luridiana & W. J. Henney
• Temperature Variations and N+/O+ in the Orion Nebula II. The Collision Strengths
  R. H. Rubin, R. J. Dufour, P. G. Martin, G. J. Ferland, J. A. Baldwin, C. O. Ortiz & D. K. Walter
• Element Abundances And Distributions In The Crab Nebula
  G. M. MacAlpine
• Photoionization dusty models of the planetary nebula NGC 6302
  F. Becerra-Dávila, L. Binette & S. Casassus
• A kinematical study of the Giant H II Regions in NGC 4449
  O. Fuentes-Masip, C. Muñoz-Tuñon, H. O. Cas-tañeda & G. Tenorio-Tagle
• A Bi-Component Spectral Analysis of 4 Planetary Nebulae
  M. H. Armour & R. L. Kingsburgh
• O2 + Recombination Abundances in Planetary Nebulae
  R. L. Kingsburgh & M. H. Armour

  ISM AND STAR FORMATION

• Dusty UCH II Regions: cloud pressures and density distributions
  Stan Kurtz, José Franco, José A. García-Barreto, Peter Hofner, Guillermo García-Segura, Eduardo de la Fuente & Alejandro Esquivel
• Photoionizing Shocks in the ISM
  S. J. Arthur
• Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy with SOFIA, EXES, and TEXES
  M. J. Richter, J. H. Lacy, T. K. Greathouse, & D. T. Jaffe
• Ionized Photoevaporation Flows in H II regions and PNe
  W. J. Henney
• Theory and observations of a jet in the $ \sigma$ Orionis region: HH 444
  L. López-Martín, A. C. Raga, J. A. López & J. Meaburn
• Hydrodynamic simulations of proplyd bowshocks
  F. García-Arredondo, W. J. Henney & S. J. Arthur

  AGN AND BLACK HOLES

• Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
  John Kormendy
• Long and Short Term Variability in the Seyfert Galaxy Mrk 110
  W. Kollatschny & W. F. Welsh
• Hidden Blazars and Emission Line Variability of High Redshift Quasars
  F. Ma
• The Puzzle of The Lyman Continuum Polarization of QSOs
  G. A. Shields, E. Agol & O. Blaes

  COSMOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES

• The evolution of disk galaxies
  Vladimir Avila-Reese & Claudio Firmani
• Explosions During Galaxy Formation
  H. Martel & P. R. Shapiro
• Reionization of the Universe and the Photoevaporation of Cosmological Minihalos
  P. R. Shapiro & A. C. Raga
• Some Theoretical consequences of the Thick, Magnetized Galactic Disk
  Marco A. Martos
• Starbursts and the production and dispersal of heavy elements
  Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle
• The Effect of Gasdynamics on the Structure of Dark Matter Halos
  M. Alvarez, P.R. Shapiro & H. Martel
• Shallow cores in the dark matter halos: self - interaction in action?
  Vladimir Avila-Reese, Claudio Firmani, Elena D'Onghia & Xavier Hernández
• The Isolated Interacting Galaxy Pair NGC 5426/27 (Arp 271)
  I. Fuentes-Carrera, M. Rosado, P. Amram, D. Dultzin-Hacyan, A. Bernal, H. Salo, E. Laurikainen, I. Cruz-Gon-zález & E. Le Coarer
• The Equilibrium Structure of Cosmological Halos: From Dwarf Galaxies to X-ray Clusters
  I. T. Iliev & P. R. Shapiro
• Neutron Diffusion and Nucleosynthesis in an Inhomogeneous Big Bang Model
  J. F. Lara
• Primordial Helium Abundance Determinations
  A. Peimbert, M. Peimbert, & V. Luridiana
• The TexOx Cluster Survey: Using Radio Sources as Galaxy Cluster Signposts
  P. L. Gay & G. J. Hill

  SUPERNOVAE AND GRB

• Extreme Type IIp Supernovae as Yardsticks for Cosmology
  P. Höflich, O. Straniero, M. Limongi, I. Dominguez & A. Chieffi
• The Multipupil Fiber Spectroscopy of the Crab-pulsar Neighbourhood
  S. Zharikov, Yu Shibanov, A. Koptsevich, V. Afanas'ev & S. Dodonov
• Axisymmetric Rotator Models as Pulsars: Abject Failure
  F. C. Michel & I. A. Smith
• Black hole-neutron star mergers
  William H. Lee
• Iron lines from GRBs: Clues toward the progenitor
  M. Böttcher & C. L. Fryer
• A Massively Parallel Code for Polarization Calculations
  Shizuka Akiyama & Peter Höflich
• Constraints on Type Ia Supernovae from Near Infrared Spectra
  G. H. Marion, P. Höflich & J. C. Wheeler

  STARS

• CO Formation in Supernovae
  D. Smith, P. Höflich & J. C. Wheeler
• Tidal forces and the mass-loss history of binary stars
  G. Koenigsberger, F. Cervantes, E. Moreno & L. Georgiev
• Hipparcos, IUE, and the Stellar Content of the Solar Neighbourhood
  C. Allende Prieto
• Prediction of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters from Spectra, Spectral Indices and Spectral Lines Using Machine Learning
  O. Fuentes & R. K. Gulati
• Biodiversity Loss in the Orion Radio Zoo?
  W. J. Henney, Ma. T. García-Díaz, & S. E. Kurtz
• Getting the Red Out: A Stellar Approach to Determining Spatial Variations of Interstellar Dust
  I. I. Ivans, C. Sneden, R. P. Kraft, N. B. Suntzeff, V. V. Smith, G. E. Langer & J. P. Fulbright
• The Age of the Galaxy from Thorium Cosmochronometry
  C. Sneden & J. J. Cowan

Abstracts of Contributed Papers
Author Index