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From Z-Machines to ALMA; (sub)millimeter spectroscopy of galaxies.

Ed. by Andrew J. Baker et al. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series; v.375)
Astronomical Soc./Pacific, ©2007    310 p.    $77.00    QB460
978-1-58381-311-9

Baker (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey) gathers 49 oral and poster presentations from a January 2006 workshop, by 78 scientists from 37 institutions in 11 different countries. Subjects examined include the nature of (sub)millimeter galaxies in hierarchical models, weighting black holes in high-redshift SCUBA galaxies, the Z-spec dispersive millimeter-wave spectrometer, and the Zpectrometer, an ultra-wideband spectrometer for the Green Bank telescope. Other subjects detailed are coordinated instruments for source detection and characterization, redshift determination algorithms for broadband spectroscopic data, monitoring phase calibrators at submillimeter wavelengths, dense gas at high redshifts, astrometric imaging of high redshift galaxies at 345 GHz, and tracing the evolution of disk galaxies with galactic structures and gas kinematics. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Library and information services in astronomy; proceedings.

Conference on Library and Information Services in Astronomy (5th: 2006: Cambridge, MA) Ed. by Sandra Ricketts et al. (Astronomical society of the Pacific conference series; v.377)
Astronomical Soc./Pacific, ©2007    436 p.    $77.00    QB51
978-1-58381-316-4

The 37 papers (nine invited) and 34 posters in this volume are drawn from the proceedings of the Fifth Library and Information Services in Astronomy conference, "Common Challenges, Uncommon Solutions," held in June 2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the issues facing astronomy librarians around the world. Ricketts (Anglo-Australian Observatory, Sydney, Australia) et al. compile papers by an international group of librarians, astronomers, and information specialists regarding the Virtual Observatory, citation analysis for astronomy, open access, technologies beyond the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and Google, creativity in libraries, preservation, the history of astronomy and astronomical archives, and e-journals and the changing publishing sector. There is no index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Massive stars in interacting binaries; proceedings.

Ed. by Nicole St-Louis and Anthony F.J. Moffat. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series; v.367)
Astronomical Soc./Pacific, ©2007    748 p.    $77.00    QB801
978-1-58381-235-8

Their luminosity drives hot, strong winds across the ecology of the universe. But when they are binary, they also produce exotic phenomena not possible when these massive stars are on their own. These proceedings from the August 2004 conference held in Québec, which includes 77 articles as well as transcriptions of the informal talks held after their presentation, describe these phenomena, methods of determination of general physical properties of massive starts and binary statistics. Along with two very useful review articles general topics include inventories of massive stars in interactive binaries, basic properties of massive single and binary stars, interacting winds (including high energy/non thermal radio, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, models, and special objects with strong winds), evolution of massive binaries (including orbit and spin evaluation, Roche-Lobe overflow, common-envelope evolution, Wolf-Rayet binaries, and x-ray binaries), endpoints of massive binary systems, and massive binaries in galaxies and dense clusters. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

White dwarfs; proceedings.

European Workshop on White Dwarfs (15th: 2006: Leicester, UK) Ed. by Ralf Napiwotzki and Matthew R. Burleigh. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series; v.372)
Astronomical Soc./Pacific, ©2007    668 p.    $77.00    QB843
978-1-58381-239-6

Proceedings from an international conference held at the U. of Leicester, UK, in August 2006. The 127 contributions are organized into eight sections: white dwarf structure and evolution; white dwarf mass distribution and luminosity function; white dwarfs in stellar clusters and the galactic halo; white dwarfs in large surveys; atmospheres, abundances and magnetic fields; white dwarf dust disks and planetary systems; white dwarfs in binaries; and variable white dwarfs. A sampling of topics: stellar evolution models of rotation in white dwarfs, central stars of planetary nebulae, a new look at the empirical initial-final mass relation, white dwarfs in the Capodimonte Deep Field, broad-band molecular polarization in white dwarfs, self-consistent diffusion in low mass hot stars, Spitzer observations of GD 362 and other metal-rich white dwarfs, the progenitors of type Ia supernovae, and testing the purity of the ZZ Ceti instability strip. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)