Programme
The session will take place on August 23-24 2012. The duration of talks is 35min+5min discussion for reviews, and 15min+5min discussion for contributed talks.
Proceedings will be published in Highlights of Astronomy - preprints available on arxiv: Session 1, Session 2, Session 3.
1. Obscured and distant clusters (Thursday 10:30-12:30 + 14-15:30, chair M. Hanson)
Opening of SpS by Y. Naze (20m)
Reviews:
- Search and characterization of obscured and distant young stellar clusters - D. Froebrich
- Massive stars in the Galactic center - F. Martins
Contributed talks:
- Young stellar clusters in the VVV survey: Towards a better understanding of their early evolution - A.-N. Chene
- Massive clusters in the Milky Way - A. Herrero
- Finding Red Supergiants in the Galaxy and Measuring their Distances - K. Menten
- The Scutum Complex - I. Negueruela
- Distribution of Wolf-Rayet stars in the Milky Way from near-IR surveys - C. Rosslowe
Posters:
- Embedded clusters near young open clusters - A. Marco
- Near-IR View of Massive Binaries in Young Massive Clusters - A. Bonanos
- Spectrophotometric distances to Galactic H II regions - A.Daminelli
- Emission Lines in the Near-infrared Spectra of the IR Quintuplet Stars - T.R. Geballe
- Characterization of the embedded open cluster G144.904+0.434 between Cam OB1-A and Cam OB1-B - C.-C. Lin
- NOT SHOWN AT THE GA - New IR data on the Byurakan-IRAS Stars (BIS) - A. Mickaelian
- Multiwavelength study of HII region IC 1805 - N. Panwar
2. Stellar and wind parameters (Thursday 16-18+friday 8:30-10, chair F. Martins)
Review:
Contributed talks:
- The Of/WN transition region - J.M. Bestenlehner
- Physical properties of Wolf-Rayet stars from near to far-IR diagnostics - P.Crowther
- The spectra of Wolf-Rayet stars in the IR - W.R. Hamann
- The potential of the IR to constrain Mass loss rates in Massive stars - F. Najarro
- Near-IR Spectroscopy of A-type supergiants with CRIRES - N. Przybilla
- Non-LTE metallicities of red supergiants - M. Bergemann
- Far-infrared emission of bow shocks around runaway OB stars - N. Cox
- Resolving the wind of the most massive stars with near-IR interferometry - J. Groh
Posters:
- Polarized radiative transfer equation in some nontrivial astrophysically interesting coordinate systems - J. Freimanis
- The parameters determination of A-type stars - W. Hou
- VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy of young massive stars - L. Kaper
- Simultaneous optical to infrared photometry and spectroscopy of classical Be stars with large near-infrared excess: the case of CD-49 3441 - C.-D. Lee
3. Matter ejection and feedback (Friday 10:30-12:30+14-15:30, chair Y. Naze)
Reviews:
- The Circumstellar Environments of Massive Stars Revealed in the Infrared - S. Wachter
Contributed talks:
- Infrared Interferometric Imaging of Massive stars and Circumstellar Disks - X.Che
- Towards a coherent view at infrared wavelengths of mass loss in Betelgeuse - P. Kervella
- Massive Stars with Infrared-Excess in the Young Supernova Remnant G54.1+0.3 - H.-J. Kim
- Herschel spectroscopic studies of mass-loss from red-supergiants - M. Matsuura
- Photometric and Spectral Variability of Newly Identified Candidate Luminous Blue Variables and Other Massive Stars - G. Stringfellow
Posters:
- Morphological Study of Wolf-Rayet Nebulae in the Near- and Mid-IR - M.A. Guerrero
- Interferometric imaging of the photosphere of Betelgeuse - P. Kervella
- A large dust reservoir in supernova 1987A - M. Matsuura
- High resolution 30-micron imaging of the Homunculus Nebula of Eta Carinae - T. Nakamura
- Massive stars' nebulae, as seen through Herschel's eyes - Y. Naze
- Three New SMC B[e] Supergiants with Reduced IR Excess - M.S. Oey
Posters: Summary by M. Hanson (20m)
Concluding remarks by A. Daminelli (40m)
IAU XXVIII General Assembly:
IR view of Massive Stars, Sep 2011.