Variable and Non-spherical Stellar Winds in Luminous Hot Stars: Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium No. 169 Held in Heidelberg, Germany, 15–19 June 1998

Rotationally modulated winds of O stars....Pages 2-10
Rotationally modulated winds of BA-type supergiants....Pages 11-18
Using spectropolarimetry to determine envelope geometry and test variability models for hot star circumstellar envelopes....Pages 19-23
Disks of classical be stars....Pages 24-31
Evidence for azimuthal asymmetry in be star winds....Pages 32-35
Short and medium term variability of emission lines in selected southern Be stars....Pages 36-39
Disk winds of B[e] supergiants....Pages 40-48
Polarimetric evidence of non-spherical winds....Pages 49-56
Wolf-rayet wind models: Photometric and polarimetric variability....Pages 57-61
Anisotropic outflows from LBVs and Ofpe/WN9 stars....Pages 62-70
Non-isotropic outflows in the infrared: ISO imaging of LBVs....Pages 71-79
Radio evidence for non-isotropic outflows from hot stars....Pages 80-86
Optical interferometry of non-spherical winds....Pages 87-94
Direct observational evidence for magnetic fields in hot stars....Pages 95-102
HST WFPCII observations of the inner HR car nebula....Pages 103-106
Observing hot stars in all four stokes parameters....Pages 107-110
Inverse spectropolarimetric modelling of hot star wind structure and variability....Pages 111-114
Physics of radiatively driven winds by high angular resolution observations (HARO)....Pages 115-118
Wind-compressed disks....Pages 120-130
Non-spherical radiation-driven wind models....Pages 131-139
Radiation-driven disk winds....Pages 140-143
Radiative fluxes and forces in non-spherical winds....Pages 144-150
Line-driven ablation by external irradiation....Pages 151-154
Extremely luminous atmospheres....Pages 155-158
Disks formed by rotation induced bi-stability....Pages 159-168
The effects of magnetic fields on the winds from luminous hot stars....Pages 169-177
Modeling oblique rotators: Magnetospheres and winds....Pages 178-186
X-ray emission from magnetically confined winds....Pages 187-190
O-star wind variability in the ultraviolet and optical range....Pages 192-200
X-ray evidence for wind instabilities....Pages 201-202
X-ray variability of the O star ζ Puppis....Pages 203-205
On the variable winds of BA supergiants....Pages 206-213
UV wind variability in B supergiants and its implications for wind structures....Pages 214-217
Variability and evidence of non-spherical stellar winds in A-type supergiants....Pages 218-221
Variable winds in early-B hypergiants....Pages 222-229
Wind variations of wolf-rayet stars....Pages 230-238
Spectral analyses of wolf-rayet stars: The impact of clumping....Pages 239-242
The long-term variability of luminous blue variables....Pages 243-248
Blitz model for the eruptions of eta carinae....Pages 249-250
Short-term variations of LBV’s....Pages 251-254
Imaging polarimetry of eta carinae with the hubble space telescope....Pages 255-259
Non-spherical outflows in massive binary systems: Circumbinary disks?....Pages 260-267
Long-term behaviour of the variable wind of P Cygni....Pages 268-271
High-resolution spectroscopy of stellar winds in recently recognized LBV candidates....Pages 272-274
Evidence for wind anisotropies from dust formation by wolf-rayet stars....Pages 275-278
ISO-SWS spectroscopy of B[e] stars....Pages 279-282
The line-driven instability....Pages 284-293
Co-rotating interaction regions in 2D hot-star wind models with line-driven instability....Pages 294-302
Pulsations in O stars....Pages 304-311
Non-radial pulsations of BA supergiants and Be stars....Pages 312-319
Theory of pulsational instabilities of hot stars....Pages 320-328
Non-radially pulsating hot stars: Non-radial pulsations and Be phenomenon....Pages 329-336
Pulsation hydrodynamics of luminous blue variables and pulsation-driven winds....Pages 337-344
Linear strange modes in massive stars....Pages 345-352
Instabilities in LBVs and WR stars....Pages 353-356
The evolution of non-spherical and non-stationary winds of massive stars....Pages 358-367
Rotation and anisotropic losses of mass and angular momentum....Pages 368-376
Rotation and wolf-rayet star formation....Pages 377-380
Dusty LBV nebulae: Tracing the mass loss history of the most massive stars....Pages 381-390
Wolf-rayet and LBV nebulae as the result of variable and non-spherical stellar winds....Pages 391-399
Ring nebulae abundances: Probes of the evolutionary history of luminous blue variable stars....Pages 400-404
The wind momentum — Luminosity relationship of blue supergiants....Pages 405-415
Conference summary: The demise of spherical and stationary winds....Pages 416-422