Eta Carinae and Other Mysterious Stars The Hidden Opportunities of Emission Line Spectroscopy : Proceedings of an International Conference Held at Tycho Brahe's Island, Hven, Sweden, 24-26 August 2000

Annotation Observational data, laboratory measurements, and modeling efforts are reported in these papers from a conference on the massive star Eta Carinae and other stars with peculiar spectroscopic signatures. Organized in sections on the spectroscopy of Eta Carinae from X-rays to radio, questions from spectroscopy of other peculiar emission line stars, fluorescence and radiative processes, and spectra of Eta Carinae and Weigelt blobs BD, the papers deal with aspects of the field such as Raman scattering and symbiotic stars, the origin of strings in the outer regions in Eta Carinae, selective emission lines in O-type spectra, and cool star chromospheres and the sun. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)