Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 33, Agosto 2008

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

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Massive Stars: Fundamental Parameters and Circumstellar Interactions

Carilo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Diciembre 11 - 14, 2006
Proceedings Editors: Paula Benaglia, Guillermo Bosch, & Cristina Cappa

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
P. Benaglia, G. L. Bosch, & C. E. Cappa
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
PARTICIPANTS

Virpi Niemela

• Obituary - Virpi Niemela
  G. L. Bosch, P. Benaglia, & C. E. Cappa
• How I came to the Massive Stars Game
  V. S. Niemela

Fundamental Parameters

• Multiwavelength Systematics of OB Spectra
  N. R. Walborn
• Spectroscopic Analyses of Massive Blue Stars (Galactic or Extragalactic)
  A. Herrero
• Massive Stars: From the VLT to the ELT
  C. J. Evans
• Magnetic fields in massive stars
  S. Hubrig
• The Physical Properties of Red Supergiants
  P. Massey, B. Plez, E. M. Levesque, K. A. G. Olsen, D. R. Silva, & G. C. Clayton
• Measuring the Rotation Rates of Wolf-Rayet Stars From Large-Scale Wind Variability
  A.-N. Chené, & N. St-Louis
• Accurate Quantitative Spectroscopy of OB Stars: C and N abundances near the Main Sequence
  M. F. Nieva & N. Przybilla
• Massive Star Evolution with Mass Loss and Rotation
  A. Maeder & G. Meynet
• Towards using optical/NIR photometry to measure the temperature of O stars
  J. Maíz Apellániz & A. Sota
• Hydrogen neutral outflowing disks of B[e] supergiants
  M. Kraus, M. Borges Fernandes, & F. X. de Araújo
• The spectra of massive stars with Gaia
  J.-C. Bouret, T. Lanz, Y. Frémat, F. Martins, K. Lefever, R. Blomme, C. Martayan, C. Neiner, P. Quinet, & J. Zorec
• Fundamental Parameters and spectrophotometric variability of He-strong stars
  L. S. Cidale, A. Torres, M. L. Arias, J. Zorec, Y. Frémat, R. E. Vallverdú, & A. Granada
• UBV-IR photometry and optical spectroscopy of the galactic OB association Bochum 7
  M. A. Corti, G. L. Bosch, & V. S. Niemela
• CNO abundance determination in massive fast rotating stars
  Y. Frémat, J. Zorec, C. Martayan, & T. Lanz
• Spectroscopic Monitoring of Southern Galactic O and WN Stars
  R. Gamen, R. H. Barbá, N. I. Morrell, J. Arias, & J. Maíz Apellániz
• The stellar upper mass limit in the solar neighborhood
  J. Maíz Apellániz, N. R. Walborn, N. I. Morrell, E. P. Nelan, V. S. Niemela, P. Benaglia, & A. Sota
• The Galactic O Star Catalog v.2.0
  A. Sota, J. Maíz-Apellániz, N. R. Walborn, & R. Y. Shida
• Line Profiles and Magnetic Fields in Massive Stars
  R. E. Vallverdú, L. S. Cidale, & R. D. Rohrmann
• Hydrogen and Helium Ionization in the Axisymmetric Envelopes of B[e] Supergiants
  J. Zsargó, D. J. Hillier, & L. N. Georgiev

Stellar Winds and Their Interactions

• Colliding Wind Signatures in Early-Type Binaries
  G. Rauw
• Radio study on the mass loss bi-stability jump
  P. Benaglia, J. S. Vink, J. Maíz Apellániz, J. Martí, B. Koribalski, & P. A. Crowther
• Radio observations of the massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1
  S. M. Dougherty & J. S. Clark
• Dust formation by colliding-wind binaries
  P. M. Williams
• Particle acceleration in the colliding wind binary WR 140
  J. M. Pittard & S. M. Dougherty
• Magnetic Models of Circumstellar Clouds around Massive Stars
  S. Owocki, R. Townsend, and A. ud-Doula
• Jet interactions in massive X-ray binaries
  G. E. Romero
• The nature of the Wolf-Rayet phenomenon: mass loss close to the Eddington limit
  G. Gräfener & W.-R. Hamann
• The first orbital solution for the massive colliding-wind binary HD 93162 ($ \equiv$WR 25)
  R. Gamen, E. Gosset, N. I. Morrell, V. S. Niemela, H. Sana, Y. Nazé, G. Rauw, R. H. Barbá, & G. R. Solivella
• Axisymmetric stellar wind models
  R. O. J. Venero, M. Curé, L. S. Cidale, & D. F. Rial

Binary Stars

• A Global Assessment of Wolf-Rayet Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds
  A. F. J. Moffat
• Eclipsing Binaries as Calibrators of the Extragalactic Distance Scale and Probes of the Most Massive Stars
  A. Z. Bonanos
• The extraordinary LBV/WR system HD 5980
  G. Koenigsberger & E. Moreno
• Massive Binaries in the R136 Cluster
  N. I. Morrell, P. Massey, K. DeGioia-Eastwood, L. R. Penny, D. R. Gies, Y. Tsitkin, & E. Darnell
• Binarity and Overestimation of the stellar cluster velocity dispersion
  G. L. Bosch
• A high resolution spectroscopic study of the interacting binary R Arae
  M. L. Arias, J. Sahade, & R. H. Barbá
• Long term optical photometric monitoring of $ \eta$ CarinÆLa Plata Observatory
  E. Fernández Lajús, M. Schwartz, N. Salerno, A. Torres, C. Fariña, C. Llinares, J. P. Calderón, F. Bareilles, R. Gamen, & V. S. Niemela
• Towards an Understanding of the Of?p star HD 191612: Optical Spectroscopy
  I. D. Howarth, N. R. Walborn, D. J. Lennon, J. Puls, Y. Nazé, & the `Friends of HD191612'
• Electromagnetic cascades in the radiation field of massive stars
  M. Orellana & G. E. Romero
• High-Energy Emission from Accreting Black Holes with High-Mass Donor Stars
  G. S. Vila & G. E. Romero

Luminous Blue Variables

• Eta Carinae and other Luminous Blue Variables
  M. F. Corcoran
• $ \eta$ Carinae: the nature of the 5.54-yr cycle
  A. Damineli
• LBVs and the nature of the S Dor cycles: the case of AG Carinae
  J. H. Groh, A. Damineli, & D. J. Hillier
• Three massive ZAMS O-type eclipsing binaries
  E. Fernández Lajús, N. I. Morrell, & V. S. Niemela
• The structure of the Winds of Eta Carinae as seen by HST/STIS and VLTI/AMBER
  K. E. Nielsen, G. Weigelt, T. R. Gull, M. F. Corcoran, T. Driebe, S. Kraus, K. Hamaguchi, & D. J. Hillier

Massive Stars and the C/ISM

• Massive stars and their surrounding nebulae: A combined approach
  S. Simón-Díaz, G. Stasinska, J. García-Rojas, C. Morisset, A. R. López-Sánchez, & C. Esteban
• Molecular observations of the environs of the oxygen W-R star WR102
  E. M. Arnal
• The ISM around WR152 and WR153ab
  C. E. Cappa, J. Vasquez, E. M. Arnal, S. Cichowolski, & S. Pineault
• Exciting New Vistas on the Formation of High Mass Stars
  D. E. A. Nürnberger
• Supernova Remnants: a link between massive stars and the surrounding medium
  G. Dubner
• Galactic Twins of the Ring Nebula Around SN1987A and a Possible LBV-like Phase for Sk-69 202
  N. Smith
• Mass loss from the progenitor of SN 1006?
  E. M. Reynoso, G. Castelletti, D. A. Moffett, & J. P. Hughes
• Gamma-ray emission from massive young stellar objects: the case of IRAS 16547-4247
  A. T. Araudo, G. E. Romero, V. Bosch-Ramón, & J. M. Paredes
• The new HI supershell GS263-02+45 and the OB Association Bochum 7: close relatives?
  M. A. Corti & E. M. Arnal
• A 12CO (J=1 $ \rightarrow$0) study towards the star forming regions RCW 121 and RCW 122
  N. U. Duronea, E. M. Arnal, & J. C. Testori
• Spectroscopic study in the N 159/N 160 Star Forming Region
  C. Fariña, G. L. Bosch, R. H. Barbá, & N. I. Morrell
• The distance and neutral environment of the massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1
  R. Kothes & S. M. Dougherty
• The ISM around southern O-type stars
  M. C. Martín, C. E. Cappa, & P. Benaglia
• WR 155 and its Surrounding ISM: Where Is the Bubble?
  M. Normandeau & S. Cichowolski
• Multiwavelength study of RCW108 as a massive star forming region
  G. A. Romero, R. H. Barbá, & E. M. Arnal
• The Kinematics of the S-shaped Nebula N 119 in the LMC
  M. Rosado, P. Ambrocio-Cruz, E. Le Coarer, D. Russeil, & P. Amram
• MSX images of stellar wind bubbles
  J. Vasquez & C. E. Cappa

Beyond the Magellanic Clouds

• Extragalactic Stellar Astronomy with Blue Supergiants
  N. Przybilla, F. Bresolin, K. Butler, R. P. Kudritzki, M. A. Urbaneja, & K. A. Venn
• Massive star formation in external galaxies: new giant HII regions
  V. Firpo, G. L. Bosch, & N. I. Morrell
• Physical Parameters in Circumnuclear Star Forming Regions
  G. F. Hägele, M. V. Cardaci, A. I. Díaz, E. Terlevich, R. Terlevich, & M. Castellanos
• Conference Summary
  P. Massey & G. Koenigsberger

  Author Index