The Be Star Newsletter, Volume 40 - July 2009

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Business Meeting and Scientific Session of the Working Group on Active B Stars
27th IAU General Assembly, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
August 6, 2009



Session 1 (G. Peters, Chair)

Business Session 

09:00   1. Activities during the past triennium, future activities, report   
           on the status of the Be Star Newsletter (G. Peters)

        2. Update on IAU Symposium 272 "Active OB stars: structure,          
           evolution, mass loss, and critical limits" to be held in Paris    
           from 2010 July 19-23 (C. Neiner)

Scientific Session

09:30   CoRoT and the Be stars (J. Fabregat)

10:00   Watching the growth of a disk: 37 days of H-alpha spectroscopy of   
        HD 168797 (E. Grundstrom)

10:15   Influence of X-ray radiation on wind structure of hot stars 
        (J. Krticka)

10:30   Coffee Break



Session 2 (J. Fabregat, Chair)

16:00   Active B stars and the new class of "gamma-ray binaries"? 
        (V. McSwain)

16:15   Magnetism in massive stars (G. Wade)

16:45   On the incidence of magnetic fields in slowly-pulsating B, beta     
        Cephei and B-type emission line stars (J. Silvester)

17:00   Be stars in the IPHAS and VPHAS+ galactic plane surveys 
        (J. Fabregat)

17:10   Non-radial pulsations in the open cluster NGC 3766 
        (R. Roettenbacher)

17:20   Analysis of B and Be star populations of the double cluster h and   
        chi Persei (A. Marsh)

17:30   End of Session


G. J. Peters


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