IX Reunión Regional Latinoamericana

    Tonantzintla, 1998

        Proceedings of the IXthLatin-American Regional IAU Meeting

        Rev. Mex. Astron. & Astrof. Ser. Conf., Vol. 11, 2001

        Table of contents

        PREFACE L. Aguilar & A. Carramiñana ix
        REPORT ON THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY xi
        GROUP PHOTOGRAPH xii
        LIST OF PARTICIPANTS xiii
        EL LOGOTIPO DE LA IX REUNION REGIONAL LATINOAMERICANA J. Galindo Trejo xviii
        FOCAL POINT 1A: SOLAR SYSTEM DYNAMICS
        GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE ACCRETION OF THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM A. Brunini 3
        COLLISIONAL PLANETARY RINGS: THE ROLE OF THE WIDTH AND THE OPTICAL DEPTH J. Espresate & J. J. Lissauer 11
        NEPTUNE'S TROJANS T. Gallardo 13
        SIZE AND FRACTION OF ACTIVE SURFACE AREA OF SOME JUPITER FAMILY COMETS: IMPLICATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THEIR PHYSICAL EVOLUTION J. A. Fernández, G. Tancredi, H. Rickman, & J. Licandro 15
        BUSCA 97 AND 98 - URUGUAYAN SEARCH FOR SATELLITES, ASTEROIDS AND COMETS G. Tancredi & A. Sosa 17
        SEARCH OF ASTEROID-ASTEROID ENCOUNTERS L. A. Mammana & R. B. Orellana 19
        FOCAL POINT 2A: BINARY STARS
        A SHORT HISTORY AND OTHER STORIES OF BINARY STARS V. S. Niemela 23
        DINAMICAL EVOLUTION OF WIDE BINARIES E. H. Mallada & J. A. Fernández 27
        OBSERVED AND INTRINSIC PROPERTIES OF BINARY STAR ORBITS G. Bosch & A. Meza 29
        STUDY OF THE SYMBIOTIC STAR AR PAVONIS A. Quiroga, E. Brandi, O. Ferrer, L. García, R. Barbá, & F. Scaltriti 31
        FOCAL POINT 2B: COMPACT STARS AND SUPERNOVAE PROGENITORS
        THE EVOLUTION OF IRON WHITE DWARF STARS J. A. Panei, L. G. Althaus, & O. G. Benvenuto 35
        RADIO QUIET PULSAR CANDIDATES AMONG UNIDENTIFIED GAMMA-RAY SOURCES A. Carramiñana, J. Guichard, V. Chavushyan, K. T. S. Brazier, O. Reimer, G. Kanbach, & S. Zharikov 37
        A POSSIBLE CONNECTION BETWEEN MAGNETARS AND GAMMA-RAY BURSTS M. Porto Allen, J. E. Horvath, & J. A. de Freitas Pacheco 39
        COMPACT STAR COOLING BY MEANS OF HEAT WAVES N. Falcón 41
        PHOTOMETRIC HISTORY OF SOME LBV CANDIDATES OF M 33 L. H. Corral, R. Kurtev, & L. Georgiev 43
        FOCAL POINT 3A: STELLAR EJECTA AND ITS INTERACTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT
        STELLAR EJECTA AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM A. C. Raga 47
        THE OPTICAL SPECTRA OF ATOMIC/IONIC MIXING LAYERS L. Binette, A. C. Raga, J. Cantó, & S. Cabrit 53
        A HIGH RESOLUTION H I STUDY OF THE ISM LOCAL TO GALACTIC WOLF-RAYET STARS M. Arnal 55
        OBSERVATIONS OF NEUTRAL AND IONIZED GAS OF THE WR RING NEBULA NGC 2359 C. E. Cappa, V. M. Goss, V. S. Niemela, & P. G. Ostrov 57
        H2 VELOCITY MAPS OF ORION: DESTRUCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE BN-KL NEBULA L. Salas, M. Rosado, I. Cruz-González, L. Gutiérrez, J. Valdez, A. Bernal, E. Luna, E. Ruiz, & F. Lazo 59
        PLANETARY NEBULAE WITH [WR] NUCLEI M. Peña & G. Stasinska 61
        FOCAL POINT 3B: STAR FORMATION
        THE COLLISIONS OF HVCs WITH A MAGNETIZED GASEOUS GALACTIC DISK A. Santillán, J. Franco, M. Martos, & J. Kim 65
        CO (J=2-1) IN-PLANE SURVEY OF THE 4th GALACTIC QUADRANT A. Luna, L. Carrasco, L. Bronfman, T. Handa, & T. A. Hasegama 67
        DETECTION OF PHOTODISSOCIATED GAS TOWARD THE H II REGION GGD 12-15 Y. Gómez, M. Lebrón, L. F. Rodríguez, S. Lizano, V. Escalante, G. Garay, & J. Cantó 69
        FOCAL POINT 4A: STELLAR POPULATIONS
        STELLAR POPULATIONS IN GALAXIES: PROGRESS ON THE MILKY WAY, ON DWARF IRREGULARS, AND ON ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES D. Minniti 73
        A HOMOGENEOUS STELLAR SAMPLE FOR THE STUDY OF METAL-RICH POPULATIONS M. Chávez, M. L. Malagnini, A. Buzzoni, & C. Morossi 81
        QUANTITATIVE STELLAR SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION J. Stock & M. J. Stock 83
        ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN STELLAR ASTRONOMY R. K. Gulati & L. Altamirano 85
        FOCAL POINT 4B: STELLAR CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS
        OPEN CLUSTERS AND OB ASSOCIATIONS: A REVIEW A. G. A. Brown 89
        SURVEY OF STELLAR ASSOCIATIONS USING PROPER MOTIONS C. Abad, L. Romero, & A. Bongiovanni 97
        SEARCHING FOR MOVING GROUPS HIPPARCOS L. Aguilar & R. Hoogerwerf 99
        STELLAR DYNAMICS IN 30 DORADUS G. Bosch, R. Terlevich, F. Selman, & J. Melnick 101
        GALACTIC TIDAL SHOCK EFFECTS IN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS F. Cruz & L. Aguilar 103
        STAR CLUSTER ENCOUNTERS: A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR ELLIPTICAL CLUSTERS M. R. de Oliveira, E. Bica, & H. Dottori 105
        ON THE LIMITS OF APPLICABILITY OF CHANDRASEKHAR'S DYNAMICAL FRICTION FORMULA P. G. Ostrov 107
        FOCAL POINT 5A: GALAXY FORMATION AND EVOLUTION
        DISK FORMATION IN A HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING MODEL P. B. Tissera, A. Sáiz, & R. Domínguez-Tenreiro 111
        GALACTIC HALO FORMATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF BIAS P. Colín, A. A. Klypin, A. V. Kravtsov, & Khokhlov 113
        PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION OF ASYMMETRY PARAMETER IN GALAXIES Y. D. Mayya & R. Romano 115
        THE CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF DYNAMICALLY HOT GALAXIES M. G. Richer, M. L. McCall, & G. Stansinska 117
        DARK MATTER AND THE CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF IRREGULAR GALAXIES L. Carigi, P. Colín, & M. Peimbert 119
        NGC 404, A GALAXY WITHOUT DARK MATTER Ma. S. del Rio, E. Brinks, & J. Cepa 121
        FOCAL POINT 5B: ACTIVE GALAXIES AND NUCLEI
        NUCLEAR ACTIVITY IN NEARBY GALAXIES T. Storchi-Bergmann 125
        NEW INSIGHTS ON THE STARBURST-AGN CONNECTION R. Cid-Fernandes, H. R. Schmitt, & T. Storchi-Bergmann 133
        INFRARED OBSERVATIONS OF ACTIVE GALAXIES J. Guichard, M. A. Malkan, & I. S. McLean 135
        KINEMATICS OF THE CENTRAL REGIONS OF NGC 1672 R. Díaz, H. R. Dottori, & G. Carranza 137
        BEAMING AND PRECESSION IN THE INNER JET OF 3C 273 Z. Abraham & G. E. Romero 139
        FOCAL POINT 6A: LARGE LATINOAMERICAN PROJECTS
        THE MEXICAN INFRARED-OPTICAL NEW TECHNOLOGY TELESCOPE:TIM PROJECT I. Cruz-González, L. Salas, E. Ruiz, E. Luna, M. Pedrayes, E. Sohn, G. Sierra, B. Sánchez, J. Valdez, L. Gutiérrez, D. Hiriart, & A. Iriarte 143
        A LARGE ARRAY OF CCDs FOR THE 1 M SCHMIDT TELESCOPE G. Sánchez, C. Abad, & F. Della Prugna 147
        RECENT LATINOAMERICAN PH. D. THESIS
        EVOLUTION OF WHITE DWARF STARS L. G. Althaus 153
        HYDRODYNAMIC MODELS OF LINE-DRIVEN ACCRETION DISK WINDS IN CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES N. A. Pereyra, T. R. Kallaman, & J. M. Blondin 159
        IONIZATION STRUCTURE AND SPECTRA OF IRON IN GASEOUS NEBULAE M. A. Bautista & A. K. Pradhan 165
        A NEW PICTURE FOR THE CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE GALAXY: THE TWO INFALL MODEL C. Chiappini 171
        ACCRETION DISKS AROUND YOUNG LOW MASS STARS P. D'Alessio 177
        PHOTOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF LOW-REDSHIFT GALAXY CLUSTERS O. López-Cruz 183
        DYNAMICS OF DISK GALAXIES AND THEIR SATELLITES H. Velázquez 189
        LIST OF POSTERS PRESENTED AT THE IX LARMA 195
        AUTHOR INDEX 201


        alberto@inaoep.mx, 22 of May 2001.