Active Close Binaries

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Openingg Remarks On Physical Causes of the Light Variations of Active Binary Systems and on their Interpretation....Pages 1-6
Eclipsing Binaries as Astrophysical Laboratories and the Strange Case of Epsilon Aurigae....Pages 7-36
Accretion Disks in Non-Degenerate Binaries....Pages 37-48
Resolving the Puzzle of the W Serpentis Stars....Pages 49-60
Extragalactic Interacting Binaries....Pages 61-68
Effective Gravity-Darkening of Close Binary Systems....Pages 69-79
Binary Activity at the Top of the Main Sequence: Y Cyg and U Oph....Pages 81-94
Period Changes and Magnetic Cycles....Pages 95-119
Absolute Dimensions of Classical Algol-Type Binaries....Pages 121-135
Recent Results of Apsidal Motion Studies in Eclipsing Binaries....Pages 137-143
On the Orbital Circularization of Close Binaries....Pages 145-154
Stellar Structure and Evolution with Respect to Binarity....Pages 155-160
An Optimization Method for solutions of Close Eclipsing Binaries....Pages 161-188
Spectrophotometry of Algol-Type Binaries....Pages 189-201
Complications in the Balmer-Line Spectrum of TT Hydrae....Pages 203-211
An Optimization Technique for the Fourier Analysis of the Light Curves of Totally Eclipsing Systems of Algol-Type....Pages 213-218
The Algol-Type Binary U Coronae Borealis, a Triple?....Pages 219-235
Interacting Binary CX Draconis....Pages 237-238
Disk-Driven Precession in Active Close Binaries and in Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 239-240
Near-Contact Binary Stars....Pages 241-251
Observations and Light Curve Analysis of Eclipsing Binaries of W UMa — Type....Pages 253-266
A Radial-Velocity Search for Brown Dwarfs and the Low-Mass Companion of HD114762....Pages 267-276
Photometry of Some Close Binaries at the Ankara University Observatory....Pages 277-285
Circularization, Synchronization, and Differential Rotation in Chromospherically Active Binaries....Pages 287-307
Do Thermally Decoupled Late-Type Contact Binaries Really Exist?....Pages 309-319
The Evolution of the Period and Synchronization for Close G-Type MS Binaries....Pages 321-329
The A-Type W Uma System Aw Uma....Pages 331-346
Rotation and Activity....Pages 347-362
Solar-Like Magnetic Structures in Active Close Binaries....Pages 363-375
Starspot Lifetimes....Pages 377-392
Tidal Torques and Magnetic Stellar Winds in RS CVn Binaries....Pages 393-409
Flares on RS CVn and Related Binaries....Pages 411-429
Activity and Evolution in RS CVn Systems....Pages 431-465
Deciphering Long-Term Photospheric and Chromospheric Activity on the Contact Binary VW Cephei....Pages 467-484
Synoptic Doppler Imaging and Photometry of Spotted Chromospherically Active Stars....Pages 485-491
Infrared Studies on Active Binaries and Circumstellar Matter....Pages 493-499
Infrared photometry of RS CVn short-period systems....Pages 501-508
On Chromospheric Emission and Photometric Variability of Active Late-Type Stars....Pages 509-514
Long-Term Observations of Active Binaries....Pages 515-544
Similarities and Differences Between the Light Variability of the K Giant and Dwarf Active Binaries HK Lac and BY Dra....Pages 545-549
Recent Measures of CaII H and K Chromospheric Fluxes in a Sample of RS CVn Systems....Pages 551-560
Photometric Variability of II Pegasi....Pages 561-572
Activity cycle in the RS CVn system II Peg....Pages 573-578
Low Flux Line Profiles on the IUE Spectra of II Peg....Pages 579-589
A Photometric Study of UV Piscium....Pages 591-600
Novae and Their Non Spherically Symmetric Explosions....Pages 601-610
Optical Properties of Cataclysmic Variable Stars....Pages 611-627
IUE Spectra of Cataclysmic Variables: Observational Results and Theoretical Implications....Pages 629-638
Binaries and Pulsars as gravitational Wave Sources: Possibility of Direct Detection By Ground Based Experiments....Pages 639-691
Neutron Star Masses....Pages 693-727
High Angular Resolution Studies of Binaries at Georgia State University....Pages 729-736
Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy as a Probe of Active Close Binaries....Pages 737-746
Modelling the Coronae and Chromospheres of RS CVn Systems by the Analysis of Ultraviolet, X-Ray and Radio Observations....Pages 747-759
Magnetic Flares in Close Binaries....Pages 761-803
The Evolution of Chromospheric Structure on AR Lacertae....Pages 805-808
Spatial Resolution of Stellar Atmospheres within Active Close Binaries....Pages 809-819
Information Limit Optimization Techniques applied to AB Doradus....Pages 821-830
The Complementarity of Doppler Imaging and Starspot Modelling....Pages 831-843
Perspectives for Ground-Based and Space Research on Active Close Binaries....Pages 845-857
Unified Treatment of Satellite Motion in Various Potential Fields....Pages 859-863
Light Curve Variations of the RS CVn-Type Eclipsing Binary ER Vulpeculae....Pages 865-871
Synthesis Methods for Eclipsing-Binary Light Curves....Pages 873-879
Types of Contact Binary Systems and Ways to Find Them....Pages 881-890
A Photometric Analyses of Eclipsing Systems in NGC188....Pages 891-896
Back Matter....Pages 897-913