The Be Star Newsletter
Volume 39 - June 2009

Editorial – G. Peters

Working Group Matters

• Greetings from the Co-Chairs of the Working Group
  Gerrie Peters & Juan Fabregat

• Some Thoughts from the Outgoing Chair of the Working Group
  Stan Owocki

• The Business and Scientific Sessions of the Meeting of the Working Group on Active B Stars at the 26th IAU General Assembly
  G. J. Peters

• Scientific Program, Working Group on Active B Stars, IAU 26th General Assembly
  • Analysis of the high temperature region in Be stars, A. Ringuelet, A. Torres^*

  • Statistical Properties of a Sample of Periodically Variable B-Type Supergiants: Evidence of a Pulsation-Mass Loss Connection?, K. Lefever, J. Puls , C. Aerts^*

  • The Comings and Goings of Be Stars, V. McSwain

  • HD 61273: a new binary system with a hot component showing an Hα emission, D. Briot^*, F. Royer

  • Circumstellar disks from rotating stars with and without magnetic fields, S. Owocki^*, A. ud-Doula, R. Townsend

    ^*Presenter

What's Happening

• CNRS Postdoc Position - Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
  Philippe Stee

• V434 Aur In Outburst!
  Thom Gandet

• Mu Centauri extremely bright!
  Sebastian Otero

• PhD studentship to study neutron star binaries in the Magellanic Clouds
  Malcolm Coe

• Postdoctoral fellowship in asteroseismology
  Coralie Neiner

• Current Minimum of the Hα Equivalent Width in π Aqr
  Ernst Pollmann

• Postdoctoral fellowship in spectropolarimetry
  Coralie Neiner

• First Announcement of a Workshop:
  The Interferometric View on Hot Stars
  Thomas Rivinius

• Omega CMa outburst
  Sebastián A. Otero

• Observing the next periastron of the δ Scorpii Be binary
  A. S. Miroshnichenko

• He I 6678 Emission Activity in γ Cas
  Ernst Pollmann

• Czech Astronomer Jiří Krpata Has Passed Away
  Petr Harmanec

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