Calibration Of Fundamental Stellar Quantities: Proceedings Of The 111th Symposium Of The International Astronomical Union, Held At Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, May 24-29, 1984 Stellar Quantities : Proceedings Of The 111th Symposium Of The International Astron

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Role of Space Observations in the Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quantities....Pages 209-224 Stellar Absolute Fluxes and Energy Distributions from 0.32 to 4.0 μm....Pages 225-252 The MK Classification and its Calibration....Pages 121-136 Standard Values and Information in Data Banks....Pages 331-342 Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quantities: Summary and Conclusions....Pages 343-349 Approaches to Photometric Calibrations....Pages 253-269 Calibration in Temperature of Photometric Parameters....Pages 271-284 The Calibration of Photometric Determinations of Abundance....Pages 285-301 How Precise are Spectroscopic Abundance Determinations Today?....Pages 137-162 Fundamental Parameters and Models of Stellar Atmospheres....Pages 303-329 Determination of Stellar Rotational Velocities....Pages 163-184 The Choice of Standard Stars....Pages 3-16 The Use and Abuse of Standard Stars....Pages 17-29 Trigonometric Parallaxes and their Calibration....Pages 31-51 The Determination of Fundamental Proper Motions....Pages 53-70 Measuring Stars with High Angular Resolution: Results from Narrabri Observatory....Pages 185-192 Measuring Stars with High Angular Resolution: Current Status and Future Prospects....Pages 193-208 Positional Astronomy and Stellar Masses....Pages 71-80 Masses, Radii and Luminosities from Analysis of Eclipsing Binaries....Pages 81-96 The Calibration of Interferometrically Determined Properties of Binary Stars....Pages 97-119 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 The Microfiche of Standard Stars....Pages 353-356 Standard Astronomical Sources for the Space Telescope....Pages 357-360 The Open Cluster M67 as a Fundamental Standard of Reference for Stellar Properties....Pages 361-364 White Dwarf Candidates for Trigonometrical Parallax Determinations....Pages 365-368 The Absolute Magnitudes of the Nearby Stars: Calibrations of Mean Luminosity Relations....Pages 369-372 Fifteen Years of Statistical Parallaxes by the Principle of Maximum Likelihood....Pages 373-375 An Empirical H γ — Luminosity Calibration....Pages 377-380 The Wilson-Bappu Effect for Mg II k-Line Emission Widths....Pages 381-383 The Influence of an Outflowing Gaseous Stream on the Determination of Masses of Semidetached Binary Systems....Pages 385-388 The Absolute Dimensions and Masses of IQ Persei....Pages 389-389 Un Diagramme Fondamental Luminosite-Type Spectral Pour Les Etoiles Doubles....Pages 391-396 Visual Binaries and the Calibration of the Main Sequence....Pages 397-400 Rotational Properties and Synchronization in Early-Type Close Binaries....Pages 401-402 UV Standard Stars by the Variable Procrustean Bed Approach....Pages 403-406 MKJ and MSS Classification of Solar-Type Stars within 100 Parsecs of the Sun: Preliminary Results....Pages 407-410 UV Spectral Classification of B Stars....Pages 411-413 Spectral Anomalies in the Hyades and Pleiades and in Field Stars with Active Chromospheres....Pages 415-416 A New Analysis of the Abundance Standards ≀ Herculis and τ Scorpii....Pages 417-421 Elemental Abundances of Normal Sharp-Lined B and A Stars from Optical Region Analyses....Pages 423-426 The Relation Between the Anomalous CN Strength, δ CN, And [FE/H] Abundances....Pages 427-427 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 On the Gravity Determination from Carbon Star Spectra....Pages 429-431 A Note on the Calibration of Effective Temperatures....Pages 433-437 The Be II λ 3130 Å Region in the Spectra of Vega and Sirius....Pages 439-439 Mount Wilson Spectra of Standard Stars....Pages 441-442 About the Photometric Calibration of IUE High Resolution Spectra: Quantification of the Order Overlap for the SWP Camera....Pages 443-446 Determination des Diametres Stellaires Par Occultations. Technique de Reduction....Pages 447-453 Standard Stars for the Comparison of Methods of Diameter Determination....Pages 455-457 A Comparison of Direct and Indirect Methods of Determination of Stellar Angular Diameters....Pages 459-461 Problems Concerning Planck’s Blackbody Law....Pages 463-463 Effective Temperatures of Stars with “Standard” Angular Diameters....Pages 465-467 Faint Secondary Standards for Spectrophotometry and the Energy Distributions of Horizontal-Branch A-Stars....Pages 469-472 High-Precision Solar Radiation Data for λλ3300-12500Å....Pages 473-474 A New Observing Station at the Pic DU MIDI Observatory for the Absolute Calibration of Stellar Radiation....Pages 475-478 The Status of the Absolute Calibration of Stellar Fluxes between 912 and 1200 Å....Pages 479-483 Secondary Standard Stars in the Four-Color System....Pages 485-490 A Preliminary Luminosity Calibration of the uvby,β Systems for Supergiant F-Type Stars....Pages 491-494 On Photometric Standards and Color Transformation....Pages 495-498 An Empirical Calibration of the Strömgren System for Late-Type Stars....Pages 499-501 Analysis of uvby Photometry and Low-Resolution Spectrophotometry of B Stars....Pages 503-504 The Stability and Accuracy of the uvby System....Pages 505-507 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 On The Calibration of the uvby Photometric System for Late-Type Stars....Pages 509-512 Steps toward a Physical Calibration of UBV Photometry....Pages 513-518 Calibration of Photometric Systems from Homogeneous Spectrophotometric Data....Pages 519-521 An Improvement in the Visual Surface Brightness Scale for B5-F5 Main Sequence Stars....Pages 523-524 The Response Function S(λ) of the UBV Color System — A Problem Again and Again?....Pages 525-528 On the Observational Determination of OB Standards....Pages 529-532 An Effective Temperature Calibration of a UV-Visual Photometric Index for “Normal” Non-Supergiant Stars....Pages 533-534 Determination of T eff for Candidate Standard Stars Based on Comparison with Model Atmoshperes....Pages 535-538 The Effect of Metallicity and Pulsation on the Infrared Colors of Luminous M Giants....Pages 539-542 The Temperature Scale of G and K Subgiants....Pages 543-545 On the Accuracy of Infrared Photometry....Pages 547-551 M V and T eff of B-Type Stars as Derived from 13-Color Photometry....Pages 553-556 The Estimation of the Electron Density n e With a Narrow-Band Photometric System Calibrated by Model Atmospheres....Pages 557-560 A Reddening and Metallicity-Free Temperature Estimator for Late M Giants....Pages 561-564 On the Homogenization of Photometric Data....Pages 565-567 Spectroscopic Gravity Estimates for Late-Type Giants: Arcturus as an Example....Pages 569-569 The Temperatures of G and K Stars....Pages 571-574 The Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Disc, Investigated by Abundance Analysis of F Stars: A Progress Report....Pages 575-579 LTE-Blanketed and Unblanketed Models For Sd0 Stars....Pages 581-581 The Zero-Point of the IAU Standard Velocity System....Pages 583-586 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 Precise Radial Velocities and Radial Velocity Standards....Pages 587-589 Standard Pulsars: Probes for the Calibration of the Galactic Continuum Background Temperature and the Electron Density of the Interstellar Medium....Pages 591-594 The Calibration of Stellar Spectra Used in Measurements of the Generalized Compton Shift....Pages 595-597 Recent Trigonometric Parallax Measurements of MK Late-Type Spectral Standard Giant Stars....Pages 599-602 The Determination of Extinction and Temperature for the Central Star of the Planetary Nebula NGC 40....Pages 603-609 Back Matter....Pages 611-644 IAU Symposium No. 111, "Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quanti ties", was held at Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, on May 24-29, 1984. Meet ings held in the past ten years on related topics include: IAU Symposium No. 109, '·Astrometric Techniques", held at the University of Florida in Jan., 1984, "The MK Process and Stellar Classification", held at the University of Toronto in June, 1983, "Stellar Absolute Energy Distri butions", an unpublished Joint Meeting (Commissions 25 and 45), held at the General Assembly of the IAU in Patras, Greece in August, 1982, IAU Colloquium No. 62, "Current Techniques in Double and Multiple Star Re search", held at Northern Arizona University in May, 1981, the ESO Work fl shop: "Methods of Abundance Determination for Stars, held in Geneva in March, 1980, "Problems of Calibration of Multicolor Photometric Sys tems", held at Dudley Observatory in March, 1979, IAU Colloquium No. 48, "Modern Astrometry", held at the University of Vienna in Sept., 1978, IAU Colloquium No. 50, "High Angular Resolution Stellar Interferometry" held at the University of Maryland in Aug., 1978, "Spectral Classifice. tion of the Future", held at the Vatican in July, 1978 and IAU Sympos ium No. 72, "Abundance Effects in Classification", held at the Univer sity of Lausanne in July, 1975. The present meeting was the first to cover the broad range of the calibration of fundamental stellar qU8T". ti ties in one meeting. Nine commissions of the IAU co-sponsored the meeting 1. Review Papers. 1.1. Standard Stars ; 1.2. Parallaxes And Proper Motions ; 1.3. Information Obtained From Binary Systems ; 1.4. Stellar Classification ; 1.5. Abundances ; 1.6. Stellar Rotation ; 1.7. Angular Diameters ; 1.8. Spectrophotometry ; 1.9. Photometry ; 1.10. Model Atmospheres ; 1.11 Data Banks And Summary -- 2. Contributed Papers. Edited By D.s. Hayes, L.e. Pasinetti, And A.g. Davis Philip. Microfiche In Pocket. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.