STELLAR PULSATION: CHALLENGES FOR THEORY AND OBSERVATION: Proceedings of the International Conference

Stellar Pulsation: Challenges for Theory and Observation

Joyce Ann Guzik, Los Alamos National Laboratory, X-2 MS T-086, Los Alamos, NM, USA ; Paul A. Bradley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, X-4 MS-T087, Los Alamos, NM, USA

Conference Location and Date: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 31 May - 5 June 2009

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published September 2009; ISBN 978-0-7354-0707-7, One Volume, Print; 662 pages; 8.5 X 11 inches, single column; Hardcover; $319.00

Readership: Researchers in stellar astrophysics, both observers and theoreticians, particularly those involved in stellar structure and evolution, heliseosmology, and asterseismology. Secondary audiences include: atomic data experts, those interested in spectral line analysis, hydrodynamicists, those interested in large-scale data mining and processing of large datasets, those interested in large-scale surveys with ground-based telescope networks as well as satellites, and geophysicists who employ similar techniques using seismic waves to study the Earth’s interior structure.

At many stages of their lives, stars exhibit variability due to pulsations or oscillations. These oscillations give us a window to ‘inside the star’, to infer its interior structure and composition, and to test the physics of stellar models. The calibration of stellar luminosity with pulsation period allows us to measure distances within the Milky Way and to nearby galaxies. This volume describes the latest observational and theoretical research and remaining challenges for understanding pulsating variable stars of all types.

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