Talk type: Stars

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    Accretion Disc Winds in Low-Mass X-Ray Binary Stars
    Disc winds and jets are ubiquitous among accreting systems on all scales, from active galactic nuclei (AGN) down to young stellar objects. They represent a key...
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    Gamma-ray bursts and their X-ray and optical afterglow
    Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful sources of electromagnetic radiation in the Universe. There are many open questions about their origin and their...
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    Molecular Astrophysics
    We discuss the role and significance of molecules in the modern astrophysics. Molecular opacities govern the structure of model atmospheres of late-type stars...
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    Strong gravity, dense matter -- probing compact objects
    The matter within a few Schwarzschild radii of accreting neutron stars and black holes is moving under the influence of a strong gravitational field, and, in...
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    (1) Seismology of stars: problems and prospects (2) Asteroseismic CoRoT targets and the ground-based follow-up observations (3) Classical novae and cataclysmic variables: a modern perspective
    The asteroseismic window of the CoRoT satellite mission aims at the monitoring of several types of pulsators along the Main Sequence. To optimise the science...
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    1st IAU-G5 seminar: The revolution of task-based computing, applied to stellar and planetary atmospheres
    (This seminar is organized by the IAU G5 commission on stellar and planetary atmospheres) Task-based computing is a method where computational problems are...
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    A Be-type star with a black hole companion
    Stellar-mass black holes have all been discovered through X-ray emission, which arises from the accretion of gas from their binary companions. Currently known...
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    A black hole in Swift J1357.2-0933 obscured by an inner disc torus
    X-ray transients are binary systems composed by a 'normal' star which is transfering mass onto a compact object (either a black hole or a neutron star) through...
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    A CLOSE LOOK INTO THE OUTBURST EVOLUTION OF BLACK HOLE X-RAY BINARIES
    X-ray observations performed by several missions during the last few decades have provided a very large data base on black hole X-ray binaries. Many of these...