Lecture Notes in Physics

Main sequence abundances: Observational aspects.- Main sequence abundances, mass loss and meridional circulation.- Observed lithium abundances as a test of stellar internal structure.- On the distribution of the lithium abundance in normal late-type giants.- Abundances in cool evolved stars.- Chemical peculiarities, mass loss, and final evolution of AGB stars in the magellanic clouds.- Nucleosynthesis and mixing in low- and intermediate-mass AGB stars.- Abundances in J-type carbon stars.- The abundance of oxygen in M92 giants.- A search for galactic carbon stars.- Surface distribution of M stars with different IRAS colour.- SiO isotope emissions from late-type stars.- Detection of water maser emission from a carbon star V778 CYGNI.- Chemical and expansion properties of compact planetary nebulae in the galactic anti-center region.- Helium flashes through the NCO reaction.- Abundances in hot evolved stars.- Evolutionary helium and cno anomalies in the atmospheres and winds of massive hot stars.- The point on the theoretical changes of surface chemistry during massive star evolution.- White dwarf seismology: Inverse problem of g-mode oscillations.- The white dwarf luminosity function and the phase diagram of the carbon-oxygen dense plasma.- Wolf-Rayet stars as a diagnostic of internal mixing processes in massive mass losing stars.- A systematic study of stellar models for c/o-rich Wolf-Rayet stars.- Overabundance of sodium in the atmospheres of massive supergiants as a possible manifestation of NeNa cycle.- Excitation of non-radial oscillations by overstable convection in differentially rotating massive main sequence stars.- Dredge-up by sound wave emission from a convective core.- Stellar mass loss and atmospheric instability.- Winds of hot stars as a diagnostic tool of stellar evolution.- Atmospheric phenomena in ETA carinae and the Hubble-Sandage variables.- Model of dusty envelope of ETA Carinae.- Turbulence-driven atmospheric instability and large-scale motions in super- and hypergiants.- Quantitative spectroscopy of Wolf-Rayet stars.- Analysis of 30 Wolf-Rayet stars.- NLTE analysis of the Wolf-Rayet star HD193077 (WN5+abs).- II-1. Hot stars spectral analysis of the Wolf-Rayet star HD 50896.- Atmospheric diagnostics of Wolf-Rayet stars.- New observational results of of/WN - transition types.- The galactic distribution and subtype evolution of Wolf-Rayet stars.- A new driving mechanism of the episodic mass-loss in BE stars.- Stellar wind equations in a new steady state.- Molecular spectroscopy as diagnostics of outer atmosphere of cool luminous stars: quasi-static turbulent molecular formation zone and stellar mass-loss.- Dust driven winds in late supergiants.- Winds from red giants.- Discovery of a reflection dust envelope around IRC+10216.- Distance determination of mass losing carbon stars from CO and HCN radio observations.- A sensitive line search in circumstellar envelopes.- Photospheres of Mira variables.- The V-stokes parameter as a manifestation of envelope activity for cool, bright, evolved stars.- The mixing length ratio, Eddy diffusivity, and acoustic waves.- Intermittent transition to irregular pulsation with mass loss in hydrodynamic models.- A model oscillator of irregular stellar variability.- The structure of a stationary atmosphere with a heat source or sink.- Evolution diagnostics in interacting binaries.- Atmospheric evidence of evolutionary processes in interacting binaries.- W Ursae Majoris star models: Observational constraints.- Mass and energy transfer in semi-detached binary systems.- Empirical determination of the gravity-darkening exponent for the secondary components filling the Roche lobe in semi-detached close binary systems.- Call H and K emission in the secondary component of U Cephei.- Carbon abundance in mass-exchanging binaries.- Photometric and polarimetric observations of the RV Tauri star ar puppis.- Classical Novae - before and after outburst.- Spectral peculiarities innova vulpeculae 1984 N 2.- The chemical composition of the white dwarfs in cataclysmic variable systems which produce novae.- Numerical modelling of the classical nova outburst.- Superoutbursts and superhumps of SU UMA Stars.- Accretion-disk-instability model for outbursts of FU Orionis.- Nonlinear oscillation of the magnetosphere around neutron stars.- Mass ejection during helium shell flashes from a massive white dwarf.- The evolution of the progenitor of SN 1987A.- SN 1987A: Ultraviolet observations and mass loss.- Spectroscopic and photometric observations of SN1987a obtained at SAAO.- SN 1987A: An Australian view.- Enrichment of S-process elements in the progenitor of SN 1987A.- On the origin of supernovae of type Ib.- Model calculations and spectroscopic constrains for SN1987A.- Type II Supernova photospheres and the distance to supernova 1967A.- Spectroscopic diagnosis of SN1987A and lesser lights.- Light curve models for SN 1987A and diagnosis of supernova interior.- Observation of a neutrino burst from the supernova SN1987a.- SN1987a:Calculations versus observations.- Supernova mechanisms: Before and after SN1987a.- SN 1987a: Theoretical considerations.- Calculated late time spectra of Supernovae.- Observing the nucleosynthesis from core collapse supernovae.- X-rays and ?-rays from Supernova 1987a.- X-ray observation of SN1987A from Ginga.- The composite image of sanduleak ?69 202, candidate precursor to SN 1987A in the LMC.- Evolution of the precursor of SN1987A.- Calculated energy distributions for SN II.- L? radiation and CaII ionization in the type II supernovae at late times.- The effect of general relativity and equation of state on the adiabatic collapse and explosion of a stellar core.- Quasi-static and steady-state pictures for collapsing core of type II supernova.- Analysis of neutrinos from Supernova 1987A.- Analysis of neutrino burst from the supernova in the large Magellanic cloud.- Time profile of the neutrino burst from the supernova 1987A.- SN1987A and constraint on the mass and lifetime of tau neutrinos.- Collapse of the neutron star induced by phase transitions and neutrino emission from SN1987A.- A rotating stellar collapse model for supernova 1987a.- Neutrino emission processes in the Weinberg-Salam theory.- A simple treatment of the problem of radiative transfer in supernova-like envelopes.- The light curve of SN 1987 A.- Nucleosynthesis in exploding massive Wolf-Rayet stars.- Origin of a diffuse galactic emission at 511 keV.- Chemical composition of high-energy cosmic-ray nuclei and its possible origin in type-II supernova.- Hard X-rays and Gamma-rays from SN 1987A.- Thermal radiation from a neutron star in SN 1987A.- Thermal X-rays due to ejecta/CSM interaction in SN 1987A.- An X-ray investigation of Crab-like supernova remnants.- The statistical analysis of Supernovae.- The X-ray spectrum of the Cygnus loop with GSPC.- Radio patrol camera for supernovae search.- Concluding remarks of the I.A.U. colloquium no.108.- Concluding remarks - II.