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ISSN Be STAR NEWSLETTER NUMBER September EditorinChief Technical Editor Geraldine J Peters Douglas R Gies email g jp etersmucenuscedu email giescharagsuedu Space Sciences Center Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy University of Southern California Georgia State University University Park University Plaza Los Angeles CA Atlanta Georgia Tel Tel FAX FAX Contents Editorial Working Group Matters Working Group News Myron Smith Jir Horn and Karel Juza P Harmanec Contributions New WUPPEAstro Observations of Hot Stars K Bjorkman et al Rapid Changes in the Sp ectrum of HD W Bidelman Recent Activity in Cen O Stahl et al Observation of a V R transition in Oph R Hanuschik et al A simple and natural explanation for shell events R Hanuschik Mo de Identication for doublewave Eri Stars L Balona The Radial Velocity Variation of Eri L Balona Whats Happ ening Forthcoming Multiwavelength Campaign on Eri G Peters Intensive Campaign on Cas M Smith IUE Campaign on Ori G Peters More on Be Star h Persei J Fabregat Polarization Activity in Omicron And D McDavid Photometric Reduction Software P Harmanec Newsletters on the WWW S Cranmer NRP Movie on the WWW J Telting Preprints Received Bibliography Meetings The Be Star Newsletter is produced at and nancial ly supported by the Georgia State University Department of Physics and Astronomy The electronic version is available on the World Wide Web httpcharagsueduBeNewsintrohtml or by anonymous ftp ftp charagsuedu cd BeNews Be Star Newsletter EDITORIAL We are happy to send you the th issue of the Be Star Newsletter We continue to make the Newsletter available in three forms pap er plain ASCI I text that is sent to email subscrib ers and also available via anonymous ftp and our version on the World Wide Web WWW We continue to receive p ositive feedback on our electronic Newsletter on the WWW and exp ect that it will continue evolve We are of course eager to hear your suggestions for improvement and are esp ecially interested in your opinions on whether we should continue to oer the email version in plain ASCI I text or p erhaps switch to a pure LaTeX format In Issue No we are pleased to publish the rst summary of the UV p olarimetric observations on hot stars that were obtained with the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo Polarimeter Exp eriment WUPPE on b oard the Astro Observatory payload own on the space shuttle Columbia in March Also included in this large issue are rep orts on recent activity in Cen Oph and HD Contributions discussing the geometry of shell phases pulsation mo des in the Eri stars and further discussion on the radial velocity variations in Eri itself are also a part of Issue No In our section Whats Happ ening we include announcements of several campaigns on Be stars and other newsworthy information of interest to the B star community The usualPreprints Received Bibliography note the new style and information on forthcoming Meetings are also a part of Issue No As usual we would like to thank those who sent contributions and help ed compile the bibliography We anticipate that Issue No will go to press around the rst of February In order to insure that your contribution will app ear please send copies to the editor inchief and technical editor by January We recommend that communications b e sent by electronic mail HYADESPETERS g jp etersmucenuscedu giescharagsuedu and prefer that contributions and ab stracts of submitted pap ers b e sent as LaTeX les Beginning with Issue No we will require that abstracts b e submitted as LaTeX les and we will supply a template for their preparation If it is not p ossible to transmit your contribution electroni cally we request that it b e submitted in a cameraready condition see pap ers in the current issue for style Contributions may also b e sent by FAX telephone number but this is not recommended for pap ers that are longer than a half page or those that contain gures due to the degradation of the resolution We pre fer that illustrations b e sent by Email as a PostScript or encapsulated PostScript le If this is not p ossible please send dark clear copies of the gures by regular mail References should by typed in the newer simpler style recently adopted by the Astrophysical Journal and other ma jor astronomical publications I would like to wish you in advance a pro ductive fall and happy holiday season and New Year I am lo oking forward to receiving your contributions in the months to come Gerrie Peters EditorinChief Be Star Newsletter WORKING GROUP MATTERS Working Group News Myron A Smith Working Group Chairman email BEIAUiuegtcgsfcnasagov First Jo e Cassinelli and I would like to arrange a regional meeting of members of the classical Be and BeXray communities next year for one day This would b e a very informal gathering that would coincide with the American Astronomical So ci ety meeting at the same time and place in Madison Wisconsin Jo e will set aside appropriate space for a meeting but it will not b e a part of the AAS meeting p er se We would b e delighted to welcome nonNorth American astronomers but they should b e aware that they would have to register for attendance of the AAS meeting separately The Wisconsin AAS meeting will take place b etween Sunday June and Thursday June Our meeting would b e held on either Friday June or Saturday June Should you b e interested please contact me Myron Smith at beiauiuegtcgsfcnasagov Second I want to remind you that the p ost of Scientic Editor of the Be Star Newslet ter will b e op en at the end of the year as the current term expires The current editor is of course Dr Gerrie Peters Gerrie has indicated that she would like to serve for a new term and we should b e thankful that there will indeed b e an outstanding candidate for the new term of At this time I would like to start to invite other willing candidates as well Should anyone b e interested please contact me or any of the other B Star Organizing Committee members Third as you may b e aware at the last IAU General Assembly in August the IAU approved a plan whereby the old Commissions would b e phased out in favor of a new structure in which a web of working groups would grow and interconnect within IAU Divisions This past winter the Division of Variable Stars and Close Binary Stars to which we will want to b elong elected its Division chairman Dr Yoji Kondo of the USA kondostarsgsfcnasagov Because this pro cess has just started I have continued with my plan which will t in well with the new IAU structure to request that our Working Group b e aliated with more than the original parent Commissions on Stellar Sp ectra and Variable Stars Therefore I have requested an aliation with the commissions on Theory of Stellar Atmospheres C and Close Binary Stars C I am now awaiting a replies from Lawrence Cram and Marcello Ro dono on this p etition Pro ceeding to topical liaisons I have circulated an invitation for several Xray as tronomers who study Xray Be binaries and High Mass Xray Binaries to join our Working Group and several have asked to b e put on the distribution list of the Chair and Newsletter Editors With the advent of ISO I am inviting interested members of the OC and others to solicit interested researchers in the study of high mass IR and radio emitting B stars to o In early February several of us in the WG were fortunate enough to attend the pulsation conference at Cap e Town South Africa As Mike Jerzykiewicz recently put Be Star Newsletter it the conference organizers in Cap e Town set new standards for hosting a conference that will b e dicult for the rest of us to emulate but we should try In any case the conference which concerned pulsators across the HRD was enjoyed by all participants It seemed to me that the conference gave a little more emphasis and certainly more results on RPNRP in B stars than other pulsation meetings over the last years For me one of the highlights was the talk by Pawel Moskalik on the theory of pulsations in B stars based on the demonstration that the new OPALOP opacities are sucient to drive radial and nonradial pulsations in B stars The new results leave many questions unanswered but certainly are a breath of fresh air to the observers who have had b een courageous enough in the past to interpret their results There were several interesting p oster pap ers on B stars as well Everyone has a favorite and mine was one by Telting et al on Cephei This pap er gives evidence for rotational splitting of NRP mo des consistent with a rotational p erio d of several days The evidence is apparently getting stronger for a magnetic dip ole as well as secondary NRP mo des in this star Jir Horn and Karel Juza Two Czech stellar astronomers and rare men Within less than a year the Stellar Department of the Astronomical Institute in Ondrejov Czech Republic whose astronomers traditionally study hot stars and Be stars in particular lost two of its most remarkable p ersonalities Drs Jir Horn and Karel Juza Karel died on March just b efore he could defend his PhD thesis devoted to a complex study of Dra Jirpassed away on December at age Though very dierent in character they were b oth brilliant scientists yet very mo dest p erhaps to o mo dest men For b oth of them their way to the profession of astronomy was full of obstacles
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