The Impact of Long-Term Monitoring on Variable Star Research: Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Data Handling, Archiving

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Long-Term Photometry Of Variables: The Story Of Hd 160529....Pages 1-18
New Astrophysical Insights Based On Historical and Modern Data of Eta Carinae 1935-1992....Pages 19-30
Evidence For Circumstellar Disks Around Variable Herbig Ae/Be Stars From Long-Term Photometry....Pages 31-40
Ten Years of Monitoring Southern Be Stars: Results From the Eso Ltpv Project....Pages 41-54
Long-Term Monitoring of the Complex Variations of be Stars....Pages 55-72
Discussion No 1: Be Stars....Pages 73-74
Long-Term Radio Monitoring of Wolf-Rayet Stars With Non-Thermal Emission....Pages 75-84
Long-Term Infrared Photometry of Wc Stars Making Circumstellar Dust....Pages 85-100
Photometric Monitoring of Wolf-Rayet Stars Strömgren uvby and narrow-band photometry....Pages 101-116
Variability of Wolf-Rayet Stars: Constraints on The Properties of Hot-Star Winds....Pages 117-140
Discussion No 2: WR Stars....Pages 141-142
Long-Term Variability of Barium and S Stars....Pages 143-162
A Long-Term Photometric Campaign Approach to the Study of Symbiotic Variables....Pages 163-176
Long-Term Light and Period Variations of Some Contact Binaries....Pages 177-184
Long-Term Monitoring Of Cyclic Frequency Variability in Rapidly Oscillating ap Stars at the Sutherland Station of The South African Astronomical Observatory....Pages 185-196
Long-Term Photometry of ap Stars....Pages 197-208
Discussion No 3: Binaries and ap Stars....Pages 209-212
Problems and Perspectives of Long-Term Observations of Population I and II Cepheids, RR Lyrae-Type and Other Luminous Pulsating Stars....Pages 213-228
The Story Of Ai Velorum: A Review....Pages 229-246
Long-Term Monitoring of the Extreme Galactic Cepheids V810 Centauri and V473 Lyrae....Pages 247-254
Hot Pulsating Stars in the Geneva System....Pages 255-266
Discussion No 4: Pulsating Stars....Pages 267-268
Instrumental Effects In Stellar Spectroscopy....Pages 269-290
Investigation of Luminous Blue Variables of the Magellanic Clouds During the Past Decade with LTPV, Caspec and IUE....Pages 291-302
Fiber-Linked Echelle Spectrographs: The Ideal Tool For High-Resolution Spectroscopic Long-Term Monitoring....Pages 303-310
Spectroscopic Monitoring of OBA Stars....Pages 311-328
Multichannel Multicolour Photometry: Experiences From A Long-Term Monitoring Campaign....Pages 329-344
Discussion No 5: Spectroscopy....Pages 345-346
Long-Term Optical Monitoring of Gamma-Ray Burst Sources....Pages 347-352
Archives of Variable-Star Observations - History, Use and Prospects....Pages 353-364
Computerised Very-Long-Term Monitoring of Variables and the Sonneberg Plate Archive....Pages 365-374
Discussion No 6: Photographic Photometry....Pages 375-378
Lessons Learned From 30 Years of Long-Term Variable-Star Photometry....Pages 379-392
Long-Term Aspects of Multi-Site Campaigns....Pages 393-404
Geneva Photometry and its Homogeneity....Pages 405-420
Photometric Monitoring: Accuracy, Homogeneity and Precision in Existing Long-Term Projects....Pages 421-436
StröMgren Photometry, Galactic Research, and Variable Stars....Pages 437-444
Back Matter....Pages 445-457