Explosive and Quiescent
Stellar Mass Loss

The UK Working Group on Evolved Stars organised Session 12 at the National Astronomy Meeting 2007, which took place in the morning of Tuesday 17 April.
Click on the links below to see PDFs of the contributions, and any additionally submitted material.

organisor: Jacco van Loon
session chair: Mark Rushton

Programme:

Oral contributions:

11:00-11:10 Turbulent and steamy supergiants Dr. Anita Richards 11:10-11:20 The VLT-FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars Dr. Chris Evans 11:20-11:30 Searching for Hidden Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Galaxy Ms. Lucy Hadfield 11:30-11:40 On the progenitor of a Type Ic Supernova Mr. Mark Crockett 11:40-11:50 Constraining GRB progenitor models by studying wind geometries Extra: A&A preprint Dr. Jorick Vink 11:50-12:00 Explosive end of 7 solar mass zero-metallicity stars Mr. Herbert Lau 12:00-12:10 Mass-losing stars in globular clusters Extra: The Intra-Cluster Medium of Globulars Mr. Iain McDonald 12:10-12:20 PNe interaction with the ISM Dr. Chris Wareing 12:20-12:30 HST Observations of the 2006 Outburst of RS Oph Prof. Michael Bode

Poster contributions:

The IPHAS nebulae database Ms. Laurence Sabin Observing the relationship between close binary central stars and their planetary nebulae Dr. Myfanwy Lloyd Extragalactic Classical Nova Monitoring & Surveys Dr. Matt Darnley Spectroscopic Monitoring of Mass-losing Stars Dr. Tom Lloyd Evans RS Ophiuchi: The most erupted recurrent nova Dr. Stewart Eyres What makes RS oph go off? Ms. Hannah Worters Sakurai's Object: an indicator of the 13C contribution from intermediate mass stars Ms. Hannah Worters How peculiar is DZ Crucis? Dr. Mark Rushton The rise and fall of CK Vul Prof. Albert Zijlstra