Stellar Astrophysics: Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference held in Hong Kong, 1999

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
The Dynamo Effect in Stars....Pages 1-8
Differential Rotation, Meridional Flow and a High-Prandtl Number Solar/Stellar Dynamo....Pages 9-16
Generation of the Angular Velocity Shear Near the Solar Surface....Pages 17-24
2D Numerical Simulation of Stellar Convection....Pages 25-36
The Atmospheric Dynamics in 2D and 3D Simulations of Stellar Surface Convection....Pages 37-44
Rotating Turbulent Compressible Convection in a Shell....Pages 45-50
Nuclear Astrophysics with Radioactive Beams....Pages 51-60
Pulsars at Parkes....Pages 61-70
Spark Model for Drifting Subpulses in Pulsars....Pages 71-80
The Observation of Pulsars at Urumqi Astronomical Observatory....Pages 81-88
Thermal X-Ray Pulses Resulting From Pulsar Glitches....Pages 89-94
Starquake-Induced Glitches in Pulsars....Pages 95-104
Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars....Pages 105-116
Probing the Neutron Star Interior with Glitches....Pages 117-126
Physics of Neutron Star Kicks....Pages 127-136
Collapsing Strange Quark Matter in Vaidya Geometry-A Possible Source of Gamma Ray Bursts....Pages 137-142
Conversion of Neutron Stars Into Strange Stars....Pages 143-148
Do Strange Stars Exist in the Universe?....Pages 149-160
Oscillations of Quark Stars....Pages 161-168
A New Indicator for the Spectral States and State Transitions in Cygnus X-1....Pages 169-174
Does Rotation Alone Determine Whether an A-type Star’s Spectrum is Abnormal or Normal?....Pages 175-180
The Distribution of Separations of Binaries....Pages 181-190
Coronal Activity of Near-Contact Binaries....Pages 191-196
ISO-Sws Studies of Wolf-Rayet Stars: Neon Abundances....Pages 197-210
Short Time Scale Variation of a Near-Contact Binary System, GR Tauri....Pages 211-220
General Relativistic Hydrodynamic Equation in Multiple System....Pages 221-228
Explanation of the O’connell Effect of a Close Binary....Pages 229-242
Effects of the Blandford-Znajek Process on Evolution of Radial Structure of Black Hole Accretion Disks....Pages 243-248
Theory of Accretion Disks and Applications in Astrophysics....Pages 249-256
A Cellular Automaton Model for the Power Law Noise of an Accretion Disc....Pages 257-266
X-Ray Spectral Variations of X-Ray Nova XTE J1550-564 During the Rising Phase of the 1998 Outburst....Pages 267-274
A New Parameter in Accretion Disk Model....Pages 275-280
Photometric Project for Zero-Age Contact and Near Contact Binary Systems....Pages 281-282
Balmer Decrement and the Structure of Be-Star Envelopes....Pages 283-290
Symbiotic Stars with Highly Resolved Emission Line Profiles....Pages 291-296
Long-Term X-Ray Variability in X-Ray Binaries: RXTE/ASM and BATSE Data....Pages 297-304
X-Rays From Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 305-318
Long-Term Variability Properties and Periodicity Analysis for Blazars....Pages 319-324
The Optical, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Light Curves and Spectra of PSR B0540-69 and PSR B1509-58....Pages 325-338
Analytical Studies on the Structure and Emission of the SS 433 Jets....Pages 339-348
Magnetically Driven Warping, Precession and Resonances in Accretion Disks....Pages 349-354
What Do γ-Ray Bursts Look Like?....Pages 355-368
Energy and Radiation Mechanisms of Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 369-378
On the Inverse Compton Scattering Model of Radio Pulsars....Pages 379-384
The Effect of ICS on GRB Afterglows....Pages 385-392
A Possible Mechanism for the Metallicity of the First Generation Star....Pages 393-398
The Influence of the Stellar Mass Ratio on Spiral Shocks in Accretion Disks Around Compact Objects....Pages 399-404
Rotating Neutron Stars for a New Microscopic Equation of State....Pages 405-410
The Radial, Vertical and Azimuthal Instability of an Isothermal Disk with Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field....Pages 411-416
Orbital Period of the Low-Inclination SW Sextantis Star V442 Ophiuchi....Pages 417-422
A New Mass Function of a Symbiotic Star, HBV475....Pages 423-428
New Cataclysmic Variables from Rass....Pages 429-432
Oxygen Abundance Evolution in the Solar Neighborhood....Pages 433-438
Three Very Metal-Poor, Extremely Wide Binaries....Pages 439-444
Lithium in G Dwarfs....Pages 445-450
Optical Observations of the X-Ray Transients X1658-298 and X1608-522....Pages 451-456
Study of Reddening in the Young Open Cluster NGC 6913....Pages 457-462
Luminosity of Type IA Supernovae and Hubble Constant....Pages 463-474
The Explanation for the Strange Shape of Mean Pulse of Pulsar PSRJ2019+2425....Pages 475-480
A Explanation of the Change in the Ortital Period of the Contact Binary V781 Tauri....Pages 481-490
The Circumstellar Envelope of The Post-AGB Star....Pages 491-494
The Statistics of X-Ray Emission From Galactic Young Pulsars....Pages 495-500
A Poly-Component Model for Galactic Halo....Pages 501-504
Back Matter....Pages 505-506