Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quantities: Proceedings of the 111th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held at Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, May 24–29, 1984

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Role of Space Observations in the Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quantities....Pages 209-224
Stellar Absolute Fluxes and Energy Distributions from 0.32 to 4.0 μm....Pages 225-252
The MK Classification and its Calibration....Pages 121-136
Standard Values and Information in Data Banks....Pages 331-342
Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quantities: Summary and Conclusions....Pages 343-349
Approaches to Photometric Calibrations....Pages 253-269
Calibration in Temperature of Photometric Parameters....Pages 271-284
The Calibration of Photometric Determinations of Abundance....Pages 285-301
How Precise are Spectroscopic Abundance Determinations Today?....Pages 137-162
Fundamental Parameters and Models of Stellar Atmospheres....Pages 303-329
Determination of Stellar Rotational Velocities....Pages 163-184
The Choice of Standard Stars....Pages 3-16
The Use and Abuse of Standard Stars....Pages 17-29
Trigonometric Parallaxes and their Calibration....Pages 31-51
The Determination of Fundamental Proper Motions....Pages 53-70
Measuring Stars with High Angular Resolution: Results from Narrabri Observatory....Pages 185-192
Measuring Stars with High Angular Resolution: Current Status and Future Prospects....Pages 193-208
Positional Astronomy and Stellar Masses....Pages 71-80
Masses, Radii and Luminosities from Analysis of Eclipsing Binaries....Pages 81-96
The Calibration of Interferometrically Determined Properties of Binary Stars....Pages 97-119
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
The Microfiche of Standard Stars....Pages 353-356
Standard Astronomical Sources for the Space Telescope....Pages 357-360
The Open Cluster M67 as a Fundamental Standard of Reference for Stellar Properties....Pages 361-364
White Dwarf Candidates for Trigonometrical Parallax Determinations....Pages 365-368
The Absolute Magnitudes of the Nearby Stars: Calibrations of Mean Luminosity Relations....Pages 369-372
Fifteen Years of Statistical Parallaxes by the Principle of Maximum Likelihood....Pages 373-375
An Empirical H γ — Luminosity Calibration....Pages 377-380
The Wilson-Bappu Effect for Mg II k-Line Emission Widths....Pages 381-383
The Influence of an Outflowing Gaseous Stream on the Determination of Masses of Semidetached Binary Systems....Pages 385-388
The Absolute Dimensions and Masses of IQ Persei....Pages 389-389
Un Diagramme Fondamental Luminosite-Type Spectral Pour Les Etoiles Doubles....Pages 391-396
Visual Binaries and the Calibration of the Main Sequence....Pages 397-400
Rotational Properties and Synchronization in Early-Type Close Binaries....Pages 401-402
UV Standard Stars by the Variable Procrustean Bed Approach....Pages 403-406
MKJ and MSS Classification of Solar-Type Stars within 100 Parsecs of the Sun: Preliminary Results....Pages 407-410
UV Spectral Classification of B Stars....Pages 411-413
Spectral Anomalies in the Hyades and Pleiades and in Field Stars with Active Chromospheres....Pages 415-416
A New Analysis of the Abundance Standards ≀ Herculis and τ Scorpii....Pages 417-421
Elemental Abundances of Normal Sharp-Lined B and A Stars from Optical Region Analyses....Pages 423-426
The Relation Between the Anomalous CN Strength, δ CN, And [FE/H] Abundances....Pages 427-427
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
On the Gravity Determination from Carbon Star Spectra....Pages 429-431
A Note on the Calibration of Effective Temperatures....Pages 433-437
The Be II λ 3130 Å Region in the Spectra of Vega and Sirius....Pages 439-439
Mount Wilson Spectra of Standard Stars....Pages 441-442
About the Photometric Calibration of IUE High Resolution Spectra: Quantification of the Order Overlap for the SWP Camera....Pages 443-446
Determination des Diametres Stellaires Par Occultations. Technique de Reduction....Pages 447-453
Standard Stars for the Comparison of Methods of Diameter Determination....Pages 455-457
A Comparison of Direct and Indirect Methods of Determination of Stellar Angular Diameters....Pages 459-461
Problems Concerning Planck’s Blackbody Law....Pages 463-463
Effective Temperatures of Stars with “Standard” Angular Diameters....Pages 465-467
Faint Secondary Standards for Spectrophotometry and the Energy Distributions of Horizontal-Branch A-Stars....Pages 469-472
High-Precision Solar Radiation Data for λλ3300-12500Å....Pages 473-474
A New Observing Station at the Pic DU MIDI Observatory for the Absolute Calibration of Stellar Radiation....Pages 475-478
The Status of the Absolute Calibration of Stellar Fluxes between 912 and 1200 Å....Pages 479-483
Secondary Standard Stars in the Four-Color System....Pages 485-490
A Preliminary Luminosity Calibration of the uvby,β Systems for Supergiant F-Type Stars....Pages 491-494
On Photometric Standards and Color Transformation....Pages 495-498
An Empirical Calibration of the Strömgren System for Late-Type Stars....Pages 499-501
Analysis of uvby Photometry and Low-Resolution Spectrophotometry of B Stars....Pages 503-504
The Stability and Accuracy of the uvby System....Pages 505-507
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
On The Calibration of the uvby Photometric System for Late-Type Stars....Pages 509-512
Steps toward a Physical Calibration of UBV Photometry....Pages 513-518
Calibration of Photometric Systems from Homogeneous Spectrophotometric Data....Pages 519-521
An Improvement in the Visual Surface Brightness Scale for B5-F5 Main Sequence Stars....Pages 523-524
The Response Function S(λ) of the UBV Color System — A Problem Again and Again?....Pages 525-528
On the Observational Determination of OB Standards....Pages 529-532
An Effective Temperature Calibration of a UV-Visual Photometric Index for “Normal” Non-Supergiant Stars....Pages 533-534
Determination of T eff for Candidate Standard Stars Based on Comparison with Model Atmoshperes....Pages 535-538
The Effect of Metallicity and Pulsation on the Infrared Colors of Luminous M Giants....Pages 539-542
The Temperature Scale of G and K Subgiants....Pages 543-545
On the Accuracy of Infrared Photometry....Pages 547-551
M V and T eff of B-Type Stars as Derived from 13-Color Photometry....Pages 553-556
The Estimation of the Electron Density n e With a Narrow-Band Photometric System Calibrated by Model Atmospheres....Pages 557-560
A Reddening and Metallicity-Free Temperature Estimator for Late M Giants....Pages 561-564
On the Homogenization of Photometric Data....Pages 565-567
Spectroscopic Gravity Estimates for Late-Type Giants: Arcturus as an Example....Pages 569-569
The Temperatures of G and K Stars....Pages 571-574
The Chemical Evolution of the Galactic Disc, Investigated by Abundance Analysis of F Stars: A Progress Report....Pages 575-579
LTE-Blanketed and Unblanketed Models For Sd0 Stars....Pages 581-581
The Zero-Point of the IAU Standard Velocity System....Pages 583-586
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Precise Radial Velocities and Radial Velocity Standards....Pages 587-589
Standard Pulsars: Probes for the Calibration of the Galactic Continuum Background Temperature and the Electron Density of the Interstellar Medium....Pages 591-594
The Calibration of Stellar Spectra Used in Measurements of the Generalized Compton Shift....Pages 595-597
Recent Trigonometric Parallax Measurements of MK Late-Type Spectral Standard Giant Stars....Pages 599-602
The Determination of Extinction and Temperature for the Central Star of the Planetary Nebula NGC 40....Pages 603-609
Back Matter....Pages 611-644