Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 18, 2002

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

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The eighth Mexico-Texas Conference on Astrophysics: Energetics of Cosmic Plasmas

México D. F., octubre 31-noviembre 2, 2002
Proceedings Editors: M. Reyes-Ruiz & E. Vázquez-Semadeni

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THIS ISSUE IN ADS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
M. Peña, M. Reyes-Ruiz & E. Vázquez-Semadeni
PARTICIPANTS

• Formation and Evolution of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos
  K. Ahn & P. Shapiro
• Density Profiles of Dark Halos from their Mass Accretion Histories
  M. A. Alvarez, K. Ahn & P. R. Shapiro
• Testing the Creation of the Universe: The Primordial Helium Abundance
  R. P. Bauman,G. J. Ferland & K. B. MacAdam
• Statistical Synthesis Models
  M. Cerviño & V. Luridiana
• Disks around Classical T Tauri Stars
  P. D'Alessio
• H$ \alpha$ Fabry-Perot Study in the Orion Nebula (M 42): Protoplanetary Disks
  E. de la Fuente, M. Rosado, L. Arias & P. Ambrocio-Cruz
• Wolf-Rayet Central Stars and the Binary Evolution Channel
  O. De Marco, E. L. Sandquist, M.-M. Mac Low, F. Herwig & R. E. Taam
• MHD Solutions for Proto-Planetary Nebulae
  G. García-Segura, J. A. López & J. Franco
• Magnetic Accretion Onto T Tauri Stars
  C. M. Johns-Krull, J. A. Valenti, & A. D. Gafford
• The Study of Interstellar Chemistry through Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy
  C. Knez, J. H. Lacy, N. J. Evans, M. J. Richter, A. M. S. Boonman &E. F. van Dishhoeck
• The Interacting Wolf-Rayet Galaxy Haro 15
  A. R. López-Sánchez, & C. Esteban
• WHIM Absorption and UV Quasar Spectra
  L. Binette, S. Haro-Corzo & M. Rodríguez-Martínez
• Photoionization Models of Metal-poor Extragalactic H 0 Regions and the Primordial Helium Abundance
  V. Luridiana, A. Peimbert, M. Peimbert, & M. Cerviño
• Physical conditions in NGC 6543 from ISO and HST data and the pitfalls of temperature maps
  V. Luridiana, E. Pérez, & M. Cerviño
• Ionizing Continuum and Emission-Line Energetics of Quasars and Seyfert Galaxies
  G. M. MacAlpine
• Recent Site Testing Campaign at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro Mártir
  R. Michel, J. Echevarría, R. Costero & O. Harris
• An XMM-Newton Observation of the Bright Seyfert 2 Galaxy NGC 6300
  A. Nava, L.A. Maddox, C. Matsumoto, K.M.Leighly & D. Grupe
• Deep WFC Images of the region around NGC 7027
  S. G. Navarro, R. L. M. Corradi, & A. Mampaso
• Surface Brightness Profiles of Galactic Globular Clusters
  Eva Noyola & K. Gebhardt
• High Velocity Outflows in the Orion Nebula Determined from Proper Motions
  C. R. O'Dell
• Characteristics of Planetary Nebulae with [WC] Central Stars
  M. Peña, S. Medina & G. Stasinska
• HeI Line Intensities in CLOUDY
  R. L. Porter, R. P. Bauman, & G. J. Ferland
• The Magneto-Rotational Instability in Protoplanetary Disks
  M. Reyes-Ruiz, E. Pérez-Tijerina & F.J. Sánchez-Salcedo
• GLMP 621: a Binary Planetary Nebula
  A. Riera, P. García-Lario, A. Manchado, O. Suárez, A. García-Hernández, M. A. Guerrero
• [Fe IV] Emission in Ionized Nebulae
  M. Rodríguez
• The Intrinsic High Metallicity of cSNRs
  A. Rodríguez-González, G. Tenorio-Tagle, & S. Silich
• Planetary Nebulae with H2 Emission
  M. Rosado & L. Arias
• Temperature Variations from HST Spectroscopy of NGC 1976
  R. H. Rubin, P. G. Martin, R. J. Dufour, G. J. Ferland, K. P. M. Blagrave, X.-W. Liu, J. F. Nguyen & J. A. Baldwin
• Star Formation in a Magnetized Disk
  F. J. Sánchez-Salcedo
• QSO Emission Lines and Black Hole Masses
  G. A. Shields
• The Trapezium Stars. Preliminary Results on Detailed Atmosphere Modeling
  S. Simón-Díaz, A. Herrero, & C. Esteban
• About the emission line sequence of H II galaxies
  G. Stasinska & Y. Izotov
• UV Observations of Neutron Capture Elements in Planetary Nebulae
  N. C. Sterling & H. L. Dinerstein
• Superbubbles vs Super-galactic winds
  G. Tenorio-Tagle & S. Silich
• Can Magnetic Fields Support Molecular Clouds?
  R. J. R. Williams, P. V. Tytarenko, & S. A. E. G. Falle

Abstracts of Contributed Papers
Author Index