Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 20, Julio 2004

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

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IAU Colloquium 194

La Paz, B. C. Sur, November 17-22, 2003
Proceedings Editors: Gaghik Tovmassian & Edward Sion

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THIS ISSUE IN ADS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
G. Tovmassian & E. Sion
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
PARTICIPANTS

The Contributed Papers

• An X-ray View of Interacting Binaries Outside the Galaxy
  A. H. Prestwich
• The crust cooling curve of the neutron star in MXB 1659-29
  R. Wijnands
• The global X-ray burst behaviour of KS1731-260
  R. Cornelisse
• Disentangling X-ray Reprocessing Sites in EXO 0748-676
  R. I. Hynes, C. A. Haswell, E. L. Robinson, K. Horne, K. O'Brien, P. A. Charles, A. R. King, & D. J. Rolfe
• Microquasars and ULXs: Fossils of GRB Sources
  I. F. Mirabel
• Resonant Scattering and Recombination in CAL 87
  J. Greiner, A. Iyudin, M. Jimenez-Garate, V. Burwitz, R. Schwarz, R. DiStefano, & N. Schulz
• Bowen Fluorescence from Companion Stars in X-ray Binaries
  J. Casares, D. Steeghs, R. I. Hynes, P. A. Charles, R. Cornelisse, & K. O'Brien
• Results of a search for new microquasars in the Galaxy
  M. Ribó, J. M. Paredes, J. Martí, J. Casares, J. S. Bloom, E. E. Falco, E. Ros, & M. Massi
• The Optical Counterpart of SAX J1808.4-3658 in Quiescence: Evidence of an Active Radio Pulsar?
  L. Burderi, T. Di Salvo, F. D'Antona, N. R. Robba, & V. Testa
• Simultaneous multi-wavelength observations of microquasars (the MINE collaboration)
  Y. Fuchs, J. Rodriguez, I. F. Mirabel, S. E. Shaw, P. Kretschmar, M. Ribó, S. Chaty, V. Dhawan, I. Brown, R. Spencer, G. G. Pooley, & D. C. Hannikainen
• Energy and Angular Momentum Deposition During Common Envelope Evolution
  N. Soker
• Symbiotic Stars in the Magellanic Clouds
  J. Miko\lajewska
• Jets from Accreting White Dwarfs
  J. L. Sokoloski, S. J. Kenyon, C. Brocksopp, C. R. Kaiser, & E. M. Kellogg
• An Observational Evidence of the Common Envelope Phase
  M. J. Sarna & J. J. Drake
• Testing common envelope theories with white dwarf binaries
  G. Nelemans & C. A. Tout
• The central star of the planetary nebula LMC-N66: a massive accreting white dwarf?
  M. Peña & W.-R. Hamann
• The $ \eta$ Carinae like FeII-rich spectrum of FBS0022-021
  S. Zharikov, G. Tovmassian, & R. Costero
• Ultraluminous X-ray Sources: an Observational Review
  G. Fabbiano
• SS433: the microquasar link with ULXs?
  P. A. Charles, A. D. Barnes, J. Casares, J. S. Clark, W. I Clarkson, E. T. Harlaftis, R. I. Hynes, T. R. Marsh, & D. Steeghs
• Chandra monitoring observation of the Antennae galaxies: the X-ray source populations and the shape of their luminosity function
  A. Zezas, G. Fabbiano, A. Baldi, A. R. King, T. J. Ponman, J. C. Raymond, & F. Schweizer
• Populations of Massive X-ray binaries
  I. Negueruela
• A ULX in NGC4559: a ``mini-cartwheel'' scenario?
  R. Soria, M. S. Cropper, & M. W. Pakull
• Super-Eddington Accretion in Black Hole X-Ray Binaries
  M. R. Truss
• Simultaneous INTEGRAL/RXTE Observations of GRS 1915+105
  J. Rodriguez, D. C. Hannikainen, O. Vilhu, Y. Fuchs, & S. E. Shaw
• Revealing the nature of the highly obscured galactic source IGR J16318-4848
  S. Chaty & P. Filliatre
• Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters
  N. Ivanova & F. A. Rasio
• Big Game Hunting in the Andromeda Galaxy: identifiying and weighing black holes in low mass X-ray Binaries
  R. Barnard
• X-ray Binaries in Early Type Galaxies and the Globular Cluster Connection
  T. J. Maccarone, A. Kundu, S. E. Zepf, & T. H. Puzia
• Using X-rays to Probe the Compact Binary Content of Globular Clusters
  N. A. Webb, B. Gendre, & D. Barret
• Far-Ultraviolet Surveys of Globular Clusters: Searching for the Products of Stellar Collisions and Near Misses
  C. Knigge, D. R.Zurek, M. M. Shara, K. S. Long, R. L. Gilliland, & P. A. Charles
• Photometric Monitoring of Binaries in Open Clusters and Associations: NGC6231
  C. Sterken & M. Y. Bouzid
• The Formation and Evolution of Compact Stars in Binaries
  R. E. Taam
• The effects of binaries on population studies
  D. Vanbeveren
• Cyclic Period Changes in the Algol WW Cygni
  R. T. Zavala, B. J. McNamara, T. E. Harrison, H. Bogue, & H. L. Maness
• Substellar Secondaries in Zero-Age Cataclysmic Variables
  M. Politano
• Accretion Processes in Mira AB
  M. Karovska, B. Wood, M. Marengo, J. C. Raymond, W. Hack, & E. Guinan
• Realistic Models for Donors in Ultracompact Binaries
  C. J. Deloye & L. Bildsten
• Binaries with Compact Components: Theoretical and Observational Challenges
  Ph. Podsiadlowski, S. Rappaport, & E. Pfahl
• Population synthesis studies of white dwarf binaries
  U. Kolb & B. Willems
• Possibility of a White Dwarf as the Accreting Compact Star in CI Cam (XTE J0421+560)
  M. Ishida, K. Morio, & Y. Ueda
• RX J0513.9-6951 and V Sagittae: Accretion Wind Evolution, A Key Evolutionary Process to Type Ia Supernovae
  I. Hachisu
• 1RXS J232953.9+062814: A Possible Progenitor of AM CVn Stars
  M. Uemura
• Are the Precursors of Type Ia Supernovae Double Degenerate Mergers?
  L. Ferrario
• Close binary white dwarfs and supernovae Ia
  R. Napiwotzki, C. Karl, G. Nelemans, L. Yungelson, N. Christlieb, H. Drechsel, U. Heber, D. Homeier, B. Leibundgut, D. Koester, T. R. Marsh, S. Moehler, E.-M. Pauli, D. Reimers, & A. Renzini
• AM CVn systems as optical, X-ray and GWR sources
  L. Yungelson, G. Nelemans, & S. F. Portegies Zwart
• High Speed Photometry of AM CVns with the UCT CCD
  P. A. Woudt & B. Warner
• On the Nature of the Binary Components of RXJ0806.3+1527
  K. Reinsch, V. Burwitz, & R. Schwarz
• The implications of disc instabilities on cataclysmic variable structure and evolution
  J.-P. Lasota
• Non-linear resonances in accretion disks and QPOs
  W. Kluzniak
• SPH Simulations of Early and Late Superhumps
  S. Kunze
• Long-term evolution of (short) Gamma-Ray Burst central engines
  W. H. Lee
• A Disk Instability Interpretation for the 2001 Outburst of WZ SGE
  Y. Osaki
• Warped Accretion Disks and Longterm X-ray Periodicities
  W. I. Clarkson, P. A. Charles, S. Laycock, M. J. Coe, C. Wilson-Hodge, & M. D. Tout
• Accretion Flows in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables
  A. J. Norton, R. V. Somerscales, T. L. Parker, G. A. Wynn, & R. G. West
• A strong variation of Accretion Disc Corona size with luminosity in LMXB
  M. J. Church
• Mass-Capture Rate by the Neutron Star in Be/X-Ray Binaries
  A. T. Okazaki & K. Hayasaki
• Modeling of Oxygen-Neon Dominated Accretion Disks in Ultracompact X-ray Binaries: 4U1626-67
  K. Werner, T. Nagel, S. Dreizler, & T. Rauch
• Some updates on the role of Magnetic Fields in Cataclysmic Variables
  C. Hellier
• Observational studies of Cataclysmic Variable evolution: Of samples, biases and surprises
  B. T. Gänsicke
• Rapid Keck Spectroscopy of Cataclysmic Variables
  W. Skidmore, K. Horne, K. Pearson, R. Gomer, K. O'Brien, & B. Oke
• Modeling the Diverse FUV Spectra of Disk-Dominated Cataclysmic Variables
  K. S. Long & C. Knigge
• Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Precessing Discs: the Stream-Disc Impact in XTEJ1118+480 (= KV UMa) in outburst
  C. A. Haswell, S. B. Foulkes, D. J. Rolfe, J. R. Murray, G. H. Tovmassian, S. V. Zharikov, P. F. L. M. Maxted, R. North, P. A. Charles, & R. I. Hynes
• Searching evidences for spiral shocks in the quiescent accretion disk of U Gem
  V. V. Neustroev, V. Chavushyan, & J. R. Valdés
• The short orbital period CV H$ \alpha$0242-28
  E. Mason
• Hydrodynamic Modelling of Accretion Flows
  J. R. Murray, M. .R. Truss, S. B. Foulkes, C. A. Haswell, & K. J. Manson
• FS Aur as a permanent superhump system
  G. H. Tovmassian & S. V. Zharikov
• XMM Observations of Polars from the SDSS
  P. Szkody, L. Homer, B. Chen, A. Henden, & G. Schmidt
• A Simple, Unifying Model of the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectra of Dwarf Novae in Outburst
  C. W. Mauche
• Chandra-ray results on V426 Ophiuchi
  L. Homer, P. Szkody, J. C. Raymond, R. E. Fried, D. W. Hoard, S. L. Hawley, M. Wolfe, J. N. Tramposch, & K. T. Yirak
• Replaying the 2001 outburst of WZ Sge
  D. Steeghs
• On the Classification of Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables
  P. A. Mason
• X-Ray Observations of Classical and recurrent Novae in Outburst
  M. Orio
• Recovery of old novae
  L. Schmidtobreick, C. Tappert, R. E. Mennickent, & A. Bianchini
• The mysterious Nature of HS2331+3905
  S. Araujo-Betancor, B. T. Gänsicke, H.-J. Hagen, T. R. Marsh, J. Thorstensen, E. T. Harlaftis, R. E. Fried, & D. Engels
• Physical Interpretation of Dwarf Nova Primary Effective Temperatures
  D. M. Townsley & L. Bildsten
• FUSE Studies of Dwarf Novae During Quiescence
  E. M. Sion, F. H. Cheng, P. Godon, & P. Szkody
• V445 Puppis, a first identified Helium Nova
  M. Kato & I. Hachisu
• Discovery of the 2001 outburst of WZ Sagittae
  T. Ohshima
• X-ray Heated Accretion Discs around Stellar Mass Black Holes
  I. Hubeny & D. T. Wickramasinghe
• Short-Term Radio-X-ray Correlations of Cygnus X-1
  T. Gleissner, J. Wilms, G. G. Pooley, M. A. Nowak, K. Pottschmidt, S. Markoff, M. Klein-Wolt, R. P. Fender, & R. Staubert
• The Radio : X-ray Correlation in Cygnus X-3 and other Galactic Microquasars
  M. Choudhury & A. R. Rao
• Chemical abundances of the secondary stars in the Black Hole Binary A0620-00 and the Neutron Star Binary Cen X-4
  J. I. González-Hernández, R. Rebolo, G. Israelian, & J. Casares
• A Chandra survey of the `Bar' region of the SMC
  A. Zezas, J. C. McDowell, P. Taylor, V. Kalogera, G. Fabbiano, & D. Hadzidimitriou
• Revealing the physical changes taking place in Z-track motion in Low Mass X-ray Binaries
  M. Ba\lucinska-Church, M. J. Church, G. Halai, & A. Szostek
• Measuring the Mass Ratios of X-Ray Transients from the Rotational Broadening of the Secondary Star's Spectrum
  E. L. Robinson & M. Bitner
• The nature of the compact object in the hard X-ray source 4U2206+54
  J. M. Torrejón, I. Kreykenbohm, A. Orr, L. Titarchuk, & I. Negueruela
• INTEGRAL observations of the transient source IGR J19140+098
  C. Cabanac, J. Rodriguez, P. O. Petrucci, G. Henri, D. C. Hannikainen, & P. Durouchoux
• A New View of the Supersoft X-Ray Source Cal 87 Observed with XMM-Newton
  M. Orio, K. Ebisawa, J. Heise, & J. Hartmann
• Rapidly evolving light curves of Low Mass X-Ray Binaries
  P. Muhli, P. J. Hakala, L. Hjalmarsdotter, D. C. Hannikainen, & J. Schultz
• The New X-ray Pulsar J1802.7-2017 observed by BeppoSAX
  R. Iaria, G. Augello, N. R. Robba, T. Di Salvo, L. Burderi, & L. Lavagetto
• X-ray spectroscopy of the high-mass X-ray binary 4U 1700-37
  A. van der Meer, L. Kaper, T. Di Salvo, M. Méndez, & M. van der Klis
• Measuring the Masses of Compact Objects in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries
  D. M. Gelino
• Photometric Periodicities in Magellanic Cloud Be/Neutron Star Binaries
  P. C. Schmidtke, A. P. Cowley, L. Levenson, & K. Sweet
• Cygnus X-3: Orbital modulation in X-rays and radio
  L. Hjalmarsdotter, P. J. Hakala, O. Vilhu, D. C. Hannikainen, M. McCollough, & G. G. Pooley
• UBV photometry of Cyg X-1 from 1996 to 2003
  I. Voloshina & V. Lyuty
• A Broad Iron Line in the Chandra/HETG Spectrum of 4U 1705-44
  T. Di Salvo, R. Iaria, M. Méndez, L. Burderi, N. R. Robba, L. Stella, & M. van der Klis
• A circumstellar interaction model for SN 2002IC
  T. Uenishi, T. Suzuki, K. Nomoto, & I. Hachisu
• Preliminary results on intermittent behaviour of millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658
  M. T. Menna, A. Papitto, L. Burderi, T. Di Salvo, L. Stella, & N. R. Robba
• Long-term variability in the quiescent X-ray transient V404 Cyg
  C. Zurita, J. Casares, P. A. Charles, R. I. Hynes, E. P. Pavlenko, & T. Shahbaz
• New Clues on the Model of YY Her after two Seasons
  L. Hric, R. Gális, A. Dobrotka, V. Šimon, K. Petrík, P. Niarchos, Z. Velic, K. Gazeas, L. Šmelcer, P. Hájek, P. Sobotka, K. Koss, L. Brát, & F. Lomoz
• CH Cygni and other Symbiotic Stars with Low Luminosity Hot Components
  L. Leedjärv, T. Tomov, M. Mikol\lajewski, & M. Burmeister
• Multiwavelength variability in the symbiotic nova V1016 Cyg
  Š. Parimucha & M. Vanko
• Dust Obscuration events of the Symbiotic Nova RR Tel in the near IR
  D. Kotnik-Karuza, M. Friedjung, & P. A. Whitelock
• Links between Symbiotic and Planetary Nebulae
  J. A. López, K. Escalante, & H. Riesgo-Tirado
• Modeling He-rich Disks in AM CVn Binaries
  T. Nagel, S. Dreizler, T. Rauch, & K. Werner
• SPH and Radiative Cooling
  K. J. Manson
• Disk structure and evolution around the neutron star in Be/X-ray binaries
  K. Hayasaki & A. T. Okazaki
• Rotating Progenitors of the Wolf-Rayet Binaries HD186943 and HD90657
  J. Petrovic & N. Langer
• Dramatic Spectral Evolution of WZ Sge during the 2001 Superoutburst
  D. Nogami & T. Iijima
• A new interpretation of the low radial velocity determined from the HeII emission line in the Galactic supersoft X-ray source RX J0019.8+2156
  I. Hachisu & M. Kato
• Time-series photometry of WZ Sge after the 2001 outburst
  S. Kitsionas, O. Giannakis, E. T. Harlaftis, A. W. Skidmore, H. M. J. Boffin, B. T. Gänsicke, & C. Papadimitriou
• The New View on the Long-Therm Flickering in T CrB
  A. Dobrotka, L. Hric, & K. Petrík
• V1493 Aql an extremely distant nova?
  A. Dobrotka, A. Retter, L. Hric, R. Novak, O. Shemmer, & Y. Lipkin
• Time-resolved Spectroscopy of Q Cyg
  S. Kafka, C. Tappert, R. K. Honeycutt, & A. Bianchini
• Analysis of Long-Term Variability of Cataclysmic Variables
  S. Kafka & R. K. Honeycutt
• Using High Resolution Data to Investigate the Variability of GG Carinae System
  M. A. Machado, F. X. de Araújo, D. de Faria Lopes, & C. Pereira
• A Comprehensive H$ \alpha$ Nova Survey of M81
  J. D. Neill, M. M. Shara, E. Halbedel, & V. Malnushenko
• HST/FOS Spectral mapping of IP Pegasi in outburst
  R. K. Saito, R. Baptista, & K. Horne
• Long-term photometric and spectroscopic behaviour of symbiotic system AG Dra
  R. Gális, L. Hric, & K. Petrík
• Thermal Timescale Mass Transfer In Binary Population Synthesis
  S. Justham & U. Kolb
• XMM-Newton and Optical Observations of WZ Sagittae in Quiescence
  K. Mukai & J. Patterson
• Light curves of Candidate Pre-Cataclysmic Binaries
  C. Tappert, B. T. Gänsicke, & R. E. Mennickent
• AA DOR -- An Eclipsing Subdwarf - Brown Dwarf Binary
  T. Rauch
• Flickering Mapping of the Cataclysmic Variables
  A. Bortoletto & R. Baptista
• Understanding CV Secondaries and the Energetics of Dwarf Novae Outbursts via Parallaxes
  J. J. Johnson, T. E. Harrison, & H. L. Osborne
• Peculiar Abundances in CV Secondary Stars: Revising their Evolutionary History?
  T. E. Harrison, S. B. Howell, J. J. Johnson, H. L. Osborne, & D. Homeier
• Determining the Masses and Evolution of CVs through Ellipsoidal Variations
  H. L. Osborne, T. E. Harrison, J. J. Johnson, & S. B. Howell
• A FUSE Survey of Disk-Accreting Cataclysmic Variables
  C. S. Froning, K. S. Long, P. Szkody, & B. T. Gänsicke
• Hydrodynamical Modelling of T Pyxidis
  G. García-Segura, M. M. Mac Low, & M. M. Shara
• Proper motions in the Faint Sky Variability Survey
  E. J. M. van den Besselaar & P. J. Groot
• SDSS J1240-01: A New AM CVn Candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  G. H. A. Roelofs, P. J. Groot, D. Steeghs, & G. Nelemans
• Towards Self-Consistent Spectral Models for Outbursting Discs in AM CVn Binaries
  N. Nunn, D. T. Wickramasinghe, & L. Ferrario
• Coronal Element Abundances of the Post-Common Envelope Binary V471 Tauri
  M. Still & G. Hussain
• Multi-wavelength predictions of the DIM
  M. R. Schreiber, J.-M. Hameury, & J.-P. Lasota
• Possible density determination of the nebular component of cataclysmic variables with the N III 4641/4635 line ratio
  J. Bohigas, E. Pérez-Tijerina, & R. Machorro
• Dwarf Nova-Like Outburst of Short-Period Intermediate Polar HT Camelopardalis
  R. Ishioka
• Numerical Simulation of the Surface Flow of a Companion Star in a Semi-detached Binary System and its Application to Galactic Supersoft X-ray Sources
  K. Oka, T. Matsuda, I. Hachisu, & H. M. J. Boffin
• Exploring the Nature of Weak Chandra Sources near the Galactic Centre
  R. M. Bandyopadhyay, K. M. Blundell, Ph. Podsiadlowski, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, Q. D. Wang, W. N. Brandt, S. Rappaport, & E. Pfahl
• High Time Resolution Spectroscopy of Short Period Variable Objects
  R. Michel & J. L. A. Fordham
• Hydrodynamic Models of the Accretion Stream in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables
  K. E. Belle
• The 2003 superoutburst of a new SU UMa-type dwarf nova, GO Comae Berenices
  A. Imada, M. Uemura, R. Ishioka, D. Nogami, & T. Kato
• Constraints on stellar evolution from observations of compact object binaries
  T. Bulik, R. Moderski, & K. Belczynski
• A VLA Survey of Magnetic Cataclysmic Variable Stars
  C. Gray & P. A. Mason
• Spectroscopy of old nova candidates
  L. Schmidtobreick, C. Tappert, A. Bianchini, & R. E. Mennickent
• New spectroscopic observations of dwarf nova BZ Ursae Majoris with extremely unusual emission lines profiles
  V. V. Neustroev, S. V. Zharikov, A. Medvedev, & A. Shearer
• Time-resolved spectroscopy and Doppler tomography of UX UMa
  V. F. Suleimanov, V. V. Neustroev, N. V. Borisov, & I. S. Fioktistova
• HS2237+8154: A new pre-CV just above the period gap
  B. T. Gänsicke, S. Araujo-Betancor, H.-J. Hagen, E. T. Harlaftis, S. Kitsionas, S. Dreizler, & D. Engels

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