Splinter Meeting HotStars
Hot stars in the Gaia era
Time: Thursday September 15, 14:00-15:45
and 16:15-18:00
and Friday September 16, 14:00-15:45
CEST (UTC+2)
Room: SFG 1030 / virtual HotStars
Convenor(s): Nicole Reindl, Veronika Schaffenroth [1], Patrick Neunteufel [2], Andreas Sander [3]
[1] Universität Potsdam,
[2] Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Garching,
[3] Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg
This splinter meeting will focus on hot stars, including both massive and luminous objects like OB-type stars, Wolf-Rayet stars, and B[e] stars, as well as intermediate mass stars in their late hot evolutionary stages, like sdOB stars, central stars of planetary nebulae, and hot white dwarfs.
Studying those stars and their environment is essential for understanding key problems of current astrophysics, like the formation of massive stars, radiation-driven winds, close binary interactions, and the final stages of stellar evolution. Hot, massive stars and their feedback are important drivers for the evolution and chemical enrichment in galaxies. Hot evolved stars are key objects to disentangle the various evolutionary pathways of intermediate mass stars, to find out about the fate of exosolar planets, or to search for progenitors and survivors of SN Ia.
The Gaia space mission has allowed us now for the first time to search for these special objects in a targeted manner, to derive their radii and masses and hence, to critically test evolutionary models. In this splinter meeting we wish to gather the hot star community to present and discuss recent advances made possible by the Gaia mission and how upcoming Gaia data releases will impact the research in our field. We are welcoming contributions in the form of talks and posters from both observers and theorists, and encourage in particular early career scientists to apply.
Program
Thursday September 15, 14:00-15:45
Hot stars in the Gaia era (SFG 1030 / virtual HotStars)
Thursday September 15, 16:15-18:00
Hot stars in the Gaia era (SFG 1030 / virtual HotStars)
Friday September 16, 14:00-15:45
Hot stars in the Gaia era (SFG 1030 / virtual HotStars)
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