Cool Stars with Excesses of Heavy Elements: Proceedings of the Strasbourg Observatory Colloquium Held at Strasbourg, France, July 3–6, 1984

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Taxonomy of Late-Type Giants....Pages 3-14
Spectral Classification and the Relations Between Peculiar Giants....Pages 15-18
The Infrared Spectra of Red Variables: II The SC and CS Stars....Pages 19-23
Spectrophotometry Characteristics of Barium Stars....Pages 25-29
Identification of Photographic Infrared Spectral Region in Carbon Stars....Pages 31-35
Peculiar Cool Stars in Planetary Nebulae - The Spectrum of FG Sge....Pages 37-41
The Discovery and Frequency of Barium Stars....Pages 43-46
The IUE Low-Dispersion Spectra Reference Atlas....Pages 47-52
Ultraviolet Spectra of N, R, and S Stars....Pages 53-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Photometric Properties of Peculiar Red Giants....Pages 61-85
Absolute Spectrophotometry of F-, G-, K-, and M-Type Stars....Pages 87-91
Calibrations of Photometric Indices on New Temperature Scales and Problem of Spectral Classification in M and C Stars....Pages 93-97
A New Photometric System for Monitoring Carbon Star Variability....Pages 99-104
Some Properties of S Mira Variables....Pages 105-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
The Distribution and Motions of Peculiar Red Giants....Pages 113-133
The Catalogue of Stellar Groups. II. Cool Peculiar Stars....Pages 135-140
Kinematics of Late-Type Giants....Pages 141-146
Kinematics and Spatial Density of Main Sequence SMR Stars....Pages 147-152
Some Statistics on Barium Stars....Pages 153-157
Carbon Stars and the Center of our Galaxy....Pages 159-161
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
The Evolutionary Connection Between S and C Stars: Evidence from Star Clusters and the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 163-166
Kinematics of Carbon Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud....Pages 167-170
Carbon and M Stars in Ngc 205....Pages 171-174
Carbon Stars in the Carina Dwarf Galaxy....Pages 175-178
Carbon Stars and S Stars Near Open Clusters — a statistical approach ....Pages 181-184
The Absolute Magnitude of Barium Stars....Pages 185-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
The Chemical Composition of Cool Stars: I - the Barium Stars....Pages 191-223
Rare Earth Patterns in Red Giants and Blue Dwarfs....Pages 225-229
Statistical Equilibrium of FE I/FE II in Cool Stars....Pages 231-235
Chemical Composition of Barium Stars....Pages 237-241
Abundance Analysis of Cool Carbon Stars....Pages 243-247
Calcium Chloride in the IUE Spectra of Carbon Stars....Pages 249-254
Carbon Isotope Ratios in Oxygen Rich Mira and SRa Variables....Pages 255-259
Niobium in R and (S6, 6e) and HR 1105 (S5,3)....Pages 261-266
Excitation of Some La II, Gd II and V I Lines by the Fluorescence Mechanism in the Spectra of the Long-Period Variable o Ceti....Pages 267-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Model Atmospheres for Peculiar Red Giant Stars....Pages 271-292
Model Atmospheres for M (Super-) Giants with Different Abundances of the Heavy Metals and the CNO Group....Pages 293-294
C, N, O, and Their Isotope Abundances in Coolest Stars of the Red Giant Branch....Pages 295-299
HCN in Stellar Atmospheres — a quantum mechanical calculation....Pages 301-305
Dust Formation in Stellar Winds....Pages 307-312
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
Binary Systems Among the Peculiar Cool Stars....Pages 315-329
The First Binary Orbit for an S-Type Star — HR 1105....Pages 331-331
A Search for Companions to Irregular Variables of Type S....Pages 333-336
The Proportion of Binaries Having a Degenerate Companion : Implications on the Formation of Barium Stars....Pages 337-343
Formation of Helium Stars with Extended Envelopes in Binaries....Pages 345-347
Mira’s Role in RR Tel Revisited....Pages 349-353
Front Matter....Pages 355-355
Stellar Evolution, Nucleosynthesis and Dredge-up in Cool Giants....Pages 357-371
Analysis of Zr and Tc Abundances from S-Stars using the s-Process with an Exponential Distribution of Neutron Exposures....Pages 373-377
The S-Process within the R Coronae Borealis Star U Aquarii....Pages 379-383
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
Concluding Summary and Remarks....Pages 387-392
Opening Remarks to the General Discussion....Pages 393-396
Back Matter....Pages 397-398