Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 14, SEPTIEMBRE 2001

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

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X Reunión Regional Latinoamericana de Astronomía, IAU

Córdoba, septiembre 19-21
Proceedings Editors: Juan José Clariá, Diego García Lambas y Hugo Levato

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
Juan José Clariá, Diego García Lambas y Hugo Levato
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
PARTICIPANTS

Solar System and Celestial Mechanics

• Extrasolar planets: theory and observations
  J.A. Fernández
• Extra-solar Planetary Systems
  S. Ferraz-Mello & T.A. Michtchenko
• Orbital migrations in planetesimal disks
  R.G. Cionco & A. Brunini

  Stars

• Indicators of Solar and Stellar activity
  P.J.D. Mauas & C. Cincunegui
• The behavior of the NIV 5203.2 Å line in stars with Wolf-Rayet and early O-type spectra
  R. Gamen & V. Niemela
• Quantitative Stellar Spectral Classification. II. Early Type Stars
  M.J. Stock, J. García, N. Sánchez, & J. Stock
• The evolution of intermediate mass stars from the main sequence to the white dwarf stage
  A.M. Serenelli, L.G. Althaus, O.G. Benvenuto, & A.H. Córsico
• Apsidal motion in binary systems as a tool for determination of stellar masses: system HD 93205 (O3V+O8V)
  A.M. Serenelli, O.G. Benvenuto, L.G. Althaus, R. Barbá, & N.I. Morrell
• Convective overshooting in White Dwarf and ZZ Ceti stars
  N. Falcón & J. Labrador
• Maser Effects in the Recombination Lines of Eta Carinae
  Z. Abraham, A. Damineli, P. Durouchoux, L.A. Nyman, & F. MacAuliffe
• Disk formation in Be-stars due to line driven stellar wind and rotation
  M. Curé
• VLA radio continuum observations of WR ring nebulae
  C. Cappa, W.M. Goss, & S. Pineault
• Physical properties of Planetary nebulae around [WC] central stars
  M. Peña, G. Stasinska, & S. Medina
• Chemical Diffusion in Stellar Convective Regions
  J.A. Panei & O.G. Benvenuto

  Stellar Systems

• The Galactic Bulge
  B. Barbuy
• Membership in the region of the open cluster NGC2244 via the EM algorithm
  M.A. Higuera G., A. Uribe, & R.S. Barrera
• Resolving Stellar Cluster Enigmas through N-body Simulations
  H. Dottori, A. Fausti, M.R. de Oliveira & R.R. de Carvalho
• Photometric study of NGC 2571
  E.E. Giorgi, R.A. Vázquez, G. Baume, W. Seggewiss, & J.M. Will
• Radial velocities, binarity, and kinematic membership in open clusters with blue straggler candidates
  J.F. González
• NGC 3293: Its Main Sequence Structure
  G. Baume, R.A. Vázquez, & A. Feinstein
• The mass profile of NGC1399 determined from globular cluster dynamics
  B. Dirsch, T. Richtler, D. Geisler, K. Gebhardt, L. Infante, D. Minniti, M. Hilker, M. Rejkuba, E.K. Grebel, S. Larsen, & M.V. Alonso
• Physical parameters of RR Lyraes in globular clusters from long term CCD photometry
  A. Arellano Ferro, A. Aguilar, Z. Marín & P. Rosenzweig

  Star Formation and Interstellar Medium

• The complex relations between Supernova Remnants and Neutron Stars
  G. Dubner
• The Temperature Structure in Ionized Nebulae and the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies
  M. Peimbert & A. Peimbert
• Geminga-like pulsars
  A. Carramiñana
• On the Ionizing Sources of HII Regions
  O.L. Dors Jr. & M.V.F. Copetti
• New results on the microquasar LS 5039
  J.M. Paredes, J. Casares, C. Zurita, J. Martí, & M. Ribó
• VLA observations of H2O and OH (1612 MHz) maser emission toward OH 231.8+4.2
  Y. Gómez & L.F. Rodríguez
• Internal Variation of Electron Density in Galactic and Extragalactic HII Regions
  J.A.H. Mallmann, M.V.F. Copetti, I.C.F. dos Santos, H.O. Castañeda, & J.M. Vilchez
• Bipolar relativistic ejections in Cygnus X-3
  J. Martí, J.M. Paredes, & M. Peracaula
• H2 kinematics of outflows
  I. Cruz-González & L. Salas

  Extragalactic Astronomy

• Hierarchical clustering
  L. Infante
• Variability and Parameter Correlations in Quasars
  A. Garcia-Rissmann & L. Sodré Jr.
• Dynamics of Galactic Satellites on Elongated Orbits
  J.C. Muzzio, F.C. Wachlin, & D.D. Carpintero
• Faint light in clusters of galaxies
  S.N. Kemp, A. Katsiyannis, J. Meaburn, M. Chávez, & D.S. Berry
• Estructuras circunnucleares en la galaxia activa interactuante NGC 1241: Cinemática y morfología en bandas ópticas e IR (HST y Gemini)
  R.J. Díaz, H. Dottori, N. Villamizar, & G. Carranza
• Population of Faint Galaxies in Clusters
  C.A. Valotto, H. Muriel, B. Moore, & D. García Lambas
• A Search for Star Clusters in Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group: dwarf Irregulars Sextans A and Sextans B
  M.H. Pedreros & C. Gallart
• 3C120: relation between optical variability and superluminal motions
  A. Caproni and Z. Abraham
• Environmental Effects on Galaxies in Clusters.
  M. Domínguez, B. Moore, & F. Pearce
• The Aquarius Superclusters
  C.A. Caretta, M.A.G. Maia, & C.N.A. Willmer
• The Population of Seyfert Galaxies in the Local Universe
  M.A.G. Maia, R.S. Machado, & C.N.A. Willmer
• First Results of Metallicity Gradients in Elliptical Galaxies
  M.A.G. Maia, R.L.C. Ogando, P.S. Pellegrini, R.P. Schiavon, C. Chiappini, C. Rité, C.N.A. Willmer, L.N. da Costa, & M.V. Alonso
• Large-scale shear and alignment of cosmic structures
  A. González-S. & E. Romano Díaz
• Formación de Galaxias y Evolución Química
  M. Mosconi
• Triggering AGN's: an evolutionary scenario
  T. Storchi-Bergmann, R. Cid Fernandes, R. González Delgado, H.R. Schmitt, & T. Heckman

  Cosmology

• Scaling relations of spiral galaxies and their application to Cosmology
  R. Giovanelli
• Non-spherical collapse models and the cosmological mass function
  M. Makler, T. Kodama, & M.O. Calvão
• Formation and evolution of disk galaxies
  V. Avila-Reese & C. Firmani

  Astronomical Projects and Instrumentation

• HST: The Astronomy revolution
  F.D. Macchetto
• Estado del Observatorio Pierre Auger
  A. Etchegoyen
• Estación Astronómica "J.L. Sérsic": 4 años de astronomía en el casquete polar
  D. Ferreiro, P. Recabarren, M. Mosconi, & V. Renzi
• Laser laboratory experiments, observations and numerical simulations of strong explosions.
  P.F. Velázquez, A.C. Raga, H. Sobral, E. de la Fuente, M. Rosado, R. Navarro-González, & M. Villagrán Muniz
• Observaciones meridianas con cámara CCD en el Círculo Meridiano Automático de San Fernando
  J.L. Muiños, F. Bellizón, M. Vallejo, C. Mallamacci, J.A. Pérez, J.A. Sedeño, L. Marmolejo & J. Navarro
• El Círculo Meridiano Automático de San Fernando en San Juan
  M. Vallejo, J.L. Muiños, F. Belizón, C. Mallamacci, & J.A. Pérez

Abstracts of Contributed Papers
Author Index