Stellar Winds APS Poster,
Encyclopedia Article Available

Dear Colleagues,

Just a brief note to call your attention to a couple of items of potential interest.

First, as some of you may know, Ed Sion is coordinating stellar astronomy contributions to the new Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics being published by MacMillan. At his invitation, I have written a general article on "Radiatively Driven Stellar Winds from Hot-Stars." You can download the full postscript file for this by either anonymous ftp or web browser to:

http://www.bartol.udel.edu/~owocki/preprints/encyc_hsw.ps.

There are also gzipped postscript (encyc_hsw.ps.gz) and Portable Display Format (encyc_hsw.pdf) versions in the same directory. Note, the files include figures that print fine in black and white, but are actually in color ps. Also, the current draft is about 20% longer than mandated, so may be edited before appearing in the encyclopedia.

The second item regards the 100th anniversary meeting in Atlanta of the American Physical Society. Chuck Dermer of NRL has organized a special poster session touting the "Great Discoveries of Astronomy," for which he asked me to prepare a poster on "Solar and Stellar Winds." You can access links to either the full (34"x34") color poster in pdf format, or to slide show versions of this via the web page address above (i.e., the root to the "preprints" directory). They were both made with MS Powerpoint, and so downloading the ppt source files would be best if you have access to this. If you specify a 25% reduction, the poster should print on a single sheet. (Right now the HTML slide show version simply has rather low-res JPEG images of slides, including text. I hope eventually to make a version with active hypertext links.)

As always, I welcome comments/criticisms, as appropriate.

Regards,
Stan Owocki
owocki@bartol.udel.edu