Variable and Non-spherical Stellar Winds in Luminous Hot Stars: Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium No. 169 Held in Heidelberg, Germany, 1519 June 1998 Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999 [Pehme köide]

Rotationally modulated winds of O stars.- Rotationally modulated winds
of BA-type supergiants.- Using spectropolarimetry to determine envelope
geometry and test variability models for hot star circumstellar envelopes.-
Disks of classical be stars.- Evidence for azimuthal asymmetry in be star
winds.- Short and medium term variability of emission lines in selected
southern Be stars.- Disk winds of B[ e] supergiants.- Polarimetric evidence of
non-spherical winds.- Wolf-rayet wind models: Photometric and polarimetric
variability.- Anisotropic outflows from LBVs and Ofpe/WN9 stars.-
Non-isotropic outflows in the infrared: ISO imaging of LBVs.- Radio evidence
for non-isotropic outflows from hot stars.- Optical interferometry of
non-spherical winds.- Direct observational evidence for magnetic fields in
hot stars.- HST WFPCII observations of the inner HR car nebula.- Observing
hot stars in all four stokes parameters.- Inverse spectropolarimetric
modelling of hot star wind structure and variability.- Physics of radiatively
driven winds by high angular resolution observations (HARO).- Wind-compressed
disks.- Non-spherical radiation-driven wind models.- Radiation-driven disk
winds.- Radiative fluxes and forces in non-spherical winds.- Line-driven
ablation by external irradiation.- Extremely luminous atmospheres.- Disks
formed by rotation induced bi-stability.- The effects of magnetic fields on
the winds from luminous hot stars.- Modeling oblique rotators: Magnetospheres
and winds.- X-ray emission from magnetically confined winds.- O-star wind
variability in the ultraviolet and optical range.- X-ray evidence for wind
instabilities.- X-ray variability of the O star ? Puppis.- On the variable
winds of BA supergiants.- UV wind variability in B supergiants and its
implications for windstructures.- Variability and evidence of non-spherical
stellar winds in A-type supergiants.- Variable winds in early-B hypergiants.-
Wind variations of wolf-rayet stars.- Spectral analyses of wolf-rayet stars:
The impact of clumping.- The long-term variability of luminous blue
variables.- Blitz model for the eruptions of eta carinae.- Short-term
variations of LBVs.- Imaging polarimetry of eta carinae with the hubble
space telescope.- Non-spherical outflows in massive binary systems:
Circumbinary disks?.- Long-term behaviour of the variable wind of P Cygni.-
High-resolution spectroscopy of stellar winds in recently recognized LBV
candidates.- Evidence for wind anisotropies from dust formation by wolf-rayet
stars.- ISO-SWS spectroscopy of B[ e] stars.- The line-driven instability.-
Co-rotating interaction regions in 2D hot-star wind models with line-driven
instability.- Pulsations in O stars.- Non-radial pulsations of BA supergiants
and Be stars.- Theory of pulsational instabilities of hot stars.-
Non-radially pulsating hot stars: Non-radial pulsations and Be phenomenon.-
Pulsation hydrodynamics of luminous blue variables and pulsation-driven
winds.- Linear strange modes in massive stars.- Instabilities in LBVs and WR
stars.- The evolution of non-spherical and non-stationary winds of massive
stars.- Rotation and anisotropic losses of mass and angular momentum.-
Rotation and wolf-rayet star formation.- Dusty LBV nebulae: Tracing the mass
loss history of the most massive stars.- Wolf-rayet and LBV nebulae as the
result of variable and non-spherical stellar winds.- Ring nebulae abundances:
Probes of the evolutionary history of luminous blue variable stars.- The wind
momentum Luminosity relationship of blue supergiants.- Conference summary:
The demise of spherical andstationary winds.