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Boletim Vol.20 N1 2000.Pdf Boletim da SAB, Vol. 20, no 1 (2000) ISSN 0101 -3440 SOCIEDADE ASTRONÔMICA BRASILEIRA Av. Miguel Stéfano, 4200 04301-904 São Paulo SP Tel.: (011) 577-8599 FAX: (011) 577-0270 ÍNDICE E-mail: [email protected] http://www.iagusp.usp.br/sab Editorial ................................................................ ....................................... i Agradecimentos ................................................................ ......................... ii Programa da XXVIa Reunião Anual.......................................................... iii DIRETORIA Quadro de Horários ................................................................ ........ vii Presidente: José Renan De Medeiros Lista de Participantes ................................................................ ................ ix Vice-Presidente: Paulo S.S. Pellegrini Resumos Secretário-Geral: Jane Gregório-Hetem Conferências ................................................................ ...................... 1 Secretário: Heloisa Boechat Comunicações Orais ................................................................ .......... 7 Tesoureiro: Thaisa Storchi Bergmann Painéis Plasmas e Altas Energias ..................................................... 19 COMISSÃO EDITORIAL Cosmologia, Relatividade e Gravitação ................................ 27 Física do Sol ................................................................ .......... 37 Heloisa Boechat (Editor) Astronomia Extragaláctica .................................................. 49 João Batista Garcia Canalle Instrumentação ................................................................ .... 71 Kepler de Souza Oliveira Filho Meio Interestelar ................................................................ .. 83 Vera Jatenco Silva Pereira A Galáxia e as Nuvens de Magalhães .................................. 95 Sistema Solar ................................................................ ........ 99 Mecânica Celeste ................................................................ 109 Astrometria ................................................................ ......... 123 A Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira não assume neces- sariamente os pontos de vista expressos nos trabalhos Ensino & História ............................................................... 131 assinados publicados no Boletim. Estrelas ................................................................ ................ 145 Índice de Autores ................................................................ .................... 179 XXVIa Reunião Anual da SAB i A CAPA ________________________________________________ EDITORIAL________________________________ ___________ A VIDA ... A ASTRONOMIA Assim como as emoções, assim como as paixões, assim como a ternura e o amor, a sensibilidade, a competência e a inteligência humana independem de credos, independem de ideologias ou de condições geográficas. A sensibilidade, a competência e a inteligência humana são intrínsecas ao Ser Humano. Somos felizes por termos na Astronomia um caminho a mais para nos apercebermos deste belíssimo aspecto da Vida! Saudações fraternas, José Renan De Medeiros Presidente Vista noturna da cúpula do telescópio de 1,60 m do Observatório do Pico dos Dias (OPD) em Brasópolis, MG - Detalhe para a região do Polo Celeste Sul. (Foto: Ednilson Oliveira, IAG-USP). ii XXVIa Reunião Anual da SAB XXVIa Reunião Anual da SAB iii PROGRAMA ________________________________ __________ AGRADECIMENTOS Domingo - 23 de Julho 15:00-18:00 Registro É hora de agradecer, pois a realização desta XXVI Reunião Anual não 19:30-20:15 Palestra de abertura: "Observatório do Pico dos Dias: Vinte anos seria realidade e sucesso sem o financiamento ou colaboração das de ciência" seguintes Instituições: João E. Steiner (MCT) 20:30 Coquetel e Jantar - CNPq - CAPES - FINEP Segunda - 24 de Julho - FAPESP 09:00-09:45 Conferência: "The SOAR Telescope" - FAPERJ Steve Heathcote (NOAO - Director/Project Scientist, SOAR) - FAPERGS - Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica 09:45-10:30 Conferência: "A conexão starburst-AGN: resultados observacionais recentes" - Observatório Nacional Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann (UFRGS) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - Editora Abril 10:30-11:30 Sessão de Apresentação de Painéis I - Áreas: Plasmas e Altas Energias, Cosmologia, Física do Sol, Astronomia Extragalática e A todas estas Instituições, nosso reconhecimento e agradecimento. Instrumentação Queremos também apresentar un agradecimento especial ao Instituto 11:30-11:50 Comunicação Oral: "Um novo espectrógrafo para o LNA: o protótipo Astronômico e Geofísico da USP, particularmente ao seu Departamento do espectrógrafo IFU do SOAR " de Astronomia, pelo apoio oferecido à realização desta XXV Reunião Jacques Lépine (IAG/USP) Anual, bem como ao próprio funcionamento da Secretaria da nossa Sociedade. 11:50-12:10 Comunicação Oral: "Age constraints on the cosmic equation of state" Enfim,...Um grande agradecimento ao esforço dos ANÔNIMOS! Jailson Alcaniz (UFRN) 12:10-12:30 Comunicação Oral: "Effects of a galactic magnetized wind on ultra-high energy cosmic ray propagation: is Virgo the main local particle source? José Renan De Medeiros Gustavo Medina Tanco (IAG /USP) 12:30-12:50 Comunicação Oral: "Neutrinos do colapso gravitacional: nasce Presidente uma estrela de neutrons" Jorge Horvath (IAG/USP) 12:50 - 15:00 Almoço iv XXVIa Reunião Anual da SAB XXVIa Reunião Anual da SAB v 15:00-15:45 Conferência: "Evolving strategies for instrumentation on large, 15:00-17:30 Discussão dos Painéis das áreas de Plasmas e Altas Energias, ground-based, OIR telescopes" Física do Sol, Cosmologia, Astronomia Extragalática, Keith Taylor (Anglo-Australian Observatory) Instrumentação Coordenadores: Adriana Silva, Vera Jatenco, Laerte Sodré, 15:45-16:05 Comunicação Oral: "Amplificação (beaming) nas componentes Miriani Pastoriza, Newton Figueiredo superluminais de jatos de quasares" Zulema Abraham (IAG/USP) 17:30-18:30 Sessão de Apresentação de Painéis IV - Áreas: Meio Interestelar, A Galáxia e as Nuvens de Magalhães, Sistema Solar, Mecânica 16:05-16:25 Comunicação Oral: "Efeito da temperatura do gás sobre o gradiente Celeste, Astrometria e Ensino de abundância de oxigênio em galáxias" Iranderly Fernandes (IAG/USP) Quarta-feira - 26 de Julho 16:30-17:30 Sessão de Apresentação de Painéis II - Áreas: Plasmas e Altas Energias, Cosmologia, Física do Sol, Astronomia, Extragalática e 09:00-09:45 Conferência: "Observações com o telescópio espacial de anãs Instrumentação brancas pulsantes" S.O. Kepler (UFRGS) 17:30-19:00 Mesa Redonda sobre Instrumentação Coordenador: Francisco Jablonski (INPE) 09:45-10:05 Comunicação Oral: "Aglomerados abertos: determinação de movimentos próprios e 'membership'" Wilton S. Dias (IAG/USP) Terça-feira - 25 de Julho 10:05-10:25 Comunicação Oral: "Mapas da distribuição de flickering em V2051 09:00-09:45 Conferência: "O que a nossa Galáxia pode nos ensinar sobre a Ophiuchi" evolução e formação de outras galáxias?" Raymundo Baptista (UFSC) Cristina Chiappini (Columbia University) 10:30-11:30 Sessão de Apresentação de Painéis V - Área: Estrelas 09:45-10:30 Conferência: "O problema da idade do Universo" José Ademir Sales de Lima (UFRN) 11:30-11:50 Comunicação Oral: "Resultados da II Olimpíada Brasileira de Astronomia – II OBA" 10:30-11:30 Sessão de Apresentação de Painéis III - Áreas: Meio Interestelar, João B.G. Canalle (UERJ) A Galáxia e as Nuvens de Magalhães, Sistema Solar, Mecânica Celeste, Astrometria e Ensino 11:50-12:10 Comunicação Oral: "Cinemática de estrelas jovens em regiões de formação estelar e associações OB entre 290 l 360" 11:30-11:50 Comunicação Oral: "Measuring the time delay in the gravitational Marília Sartori (IAG/USP) lens PKS1830-211 using molecular absorption lines" Tommy Wiklind (Onsala Observatory) 12:10-12:30 Comunicação Oral: "OH/IR stars in the inner bulge detected by ISOGAL" 11:50-12:10 Comunicação Oral: "Conteúdo estelar de galáxias distantes" Roberto Ortiz (UFES) Duília Fernandes de Mello (Onsala Observatory) 12:30-12:50 Comunicação Oral: "Ressonâncias de movimentos médios na 12:10-12:30 Comunicação Oral: "Análise de indicadores de metalicidade e região trans-netuniana" dinâmica em galáxias tipo "early" e bojos de espirais: diferenças e Fernando Roig (IAG/USP) semelhanças em suas histórias de formação e evolução" Paulo Pellegrini (ON/CNPq) 12:50-15:00 Almoço 12:30-12:50 Comunicação Oral: "Nebulosas planetárias anulares: o caso de 15:00-17:00 Discussões dos Painéis das áreas de Meio Interestelar, A Galáxia NGC3132" e as Nuvens de Magalhães, Sistema Solar, Mecânica Celeste, Hektor Monteiro (IAG/USP) Astrometria e Ensino 12:50-15:00 Almoço vi XXVIa Reunião Anual da SAB XXVIa Reunião Anual da SAB vii Coordenadores: Basílio Santiago, Silvia Giuliatti Winter, Othon Winter, Alexandre Andrei, Lilia Arany-Prado 17:00-18:00 Sessão de Apresentação de Painéis VI - Área: Estrelas 18:00-19:00 Assembléia Geral Ordinária Eleição da nova Diretoria QUADRO DE HORÁRIOS Quinta-feira - 27 de Julho SEGUNDA, TERÇA, QUARTA, QUINTA, 09:00-09:45 Conferência: "Término da construção do telescópio imageador de raios-X e gama MASCO" 24/7 25/7 26/7 27/7 09:00 Thyrso Villela (INPE) Conferência Conferência Conferência Conferência 09:45 09:45-10:05 Comunicação Oral: "Observando estrelas T-Tauri com Keck e 09:45 Comunicações Comunicações Conferência Conferência Gemini" 10:30 Orais Orais Reuven Opher (IAG/USP) 10:30 Sessão Sessão Sessão de Discussão de 11:30 Painéis I Painéis III Painéis V 10:05-10:25 Comunicação Oral: "Rotation
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