Visual Double Stars: Formation, Dynamics and Evolutionary Tracks [Hardcover]

This workshop is devoted to Double stars. The general topics of the meeting were: for? mation, dynamics and evolutionary tracks. In accordance with the pure tradition of the Saint James way, pilgrims from all over the world come to meet together in Santiago. Although with a common interest (double stars), this meeting was a multidisciplinary one, since scientists with different backgrounds participated in it. As a matter of fact, we think that this is the first workshop jointly supported by IAU Commissions 7 (Celestial mechanics) and 26 (Double and multiple stars). It is our belief that this meeting will be the origin of a more close relations and common research. This meeting was held under the invitation of the University of Santiago de Compostela to commemorate its fifth centenary, and organized by the Astronomical Observatory named after its founder, Ramon M. Aller, who made significant contributions in the study of visual double stars, and was one of the pioneers who put the seeds of the present blossoming of Astronomy in Spain. The Scientific Organizing Committee was formed by Drs. C. Allen, P. Couteau, J. A. Docobo, R. Dvorak, A. Elipe, S. Ferraz-Mello (co-chairman), H.A.McAlister, M. Valtonen, C.Worley (chairman) and H. Zinnecker. The Local Organizing Committee was formed by Drs. J. A. Docobo (chairman), A.Section I Observations and Their Results.- Invited Papers.- Twenty Years of Speckle Interferometry.- Les Binaires Visuelles Serrees.- Contributed Papers.- Improving Astrometric Measurements Using Image Reconstruction.- Optical Spectra of Some Visual Binaries with Variable Component.- Reduction of CCD Observations of Double and Multiple Stars.- Measurement Precision on the Yale-San Juan Speckle Interferometry Program.- Images of Mizar A from Long Baseline Optical Interferometry.- Observations of Be and B Binary Stars with the Speckle Spectroscopic Method.- Speckle Masking Imaging of the Spectroscopic Binaries Gliese 150.2 and 41 Draconis.- Observations ofl³B