The proceedings of the IAU 8th Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting : a meeting held at National Center of Sciences, Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 2-5 July 2002 / edited by Satoru Ikeuchi, John Hearnshaw, and Tomoyuki Hanawa.

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Edition:1st ed.
Published: San Francisco, Calif : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, c2003-
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Series:Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 289
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Table of Contents:
  • Steps Toward the Next Generation CFHT / Gregory G. Fahlman
  • HERCULES: A High-resolution Spectrograph for Small to Medium-sized Telescopes / J. B. Hearnshaw, S. I. Barnes, N. Frost, G. M. Kershaw, G. Graham and G. R. Nankivell
  • A Detailed Analysis of the Short- and Long-term Precision of Stellar Radial Velocities Obtained Using HERCULES / Jovan Skuljan
  • Square Kilometre Array (SKA) / R. D. Ekers
  • The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope / Rajaram Nityananda
  • A Proposal for Constructing a New VLBI Array, Horizon Telescope / Makoto Miyoshi, Seiji Kameno and Heino Falcke
  • Solar-B: Status of Project / Yoshinori Suematsu / Solar-B team
  • On Astronomy Cooperation between, and New Facilities from, Indonesia and Japan / Hakim L. Malasan
  • Astronomy Against Terrorism: an Educational Astronomical Observatory Project in Peru / Mutsumi Ishitsuka, Hernan Montes, Takehiko Kuroda, Masaki Morimoto and Jose Ishitsuka
  • Techniques for the Detection of Planets beyond the Solar System / John Hearnshaw
  • A Transit Search for Extrasolar Planets with the 0.5m Automated Patrol Telescope / M. G. Hidas, J. K. Webb, M. C. B. Ashley, M. Hunt, J. Anderson and M. Irwin
  • Microlensing at High Magnification: Extra-solar Planets / Nicholas Rattenbury, Ian Bond, Jovan Skuljan and Phil Yock
  • Searches for Extrasolar Planets with the Subaru Telescope: Companions and Free-Floaters / Motohide Tamura, Yoichi Itoh and Yumiko Oasa / CIAO/CISCO/AO/SUBARU Telescope Teams
  • Low Mass Companions to Stars: Implications for Models of the Formation and Evolution of Binary and Planetary Systems / David C. Black and Tomasz F. Stepinski
  • Investigation of the Physical Properties of Protoplanetary Disks around T Tauri Stars by a High-resolution Imaging Survey at [lambda] = 2 mm / Munetake Momose, Yoshimi Kitamura, Sozo Yokogawa, Ryohei Kawabe, Motohide Tamura and Shigeru Ida
  • A Dynamical Analysis of the GJ 876 and HD 82943 Systems / Ji Jianghui, Li Guangyu and Liu Lin
  • The 6dF Galaxy Survey / Ken-ichi Wakamatsu, Matthew Colless, Tom Jarrett, Quentin Parker, William Saunders and Fred Watson
  • Radio Sources in the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: AGN, Starburst Galaxies and Their Cosmic Evolution / Elaine M. Sadler, Carole A. Jackson and Russell D. Cannon
  • A Large Scale Extragalactic Survey with an Infrared Camera Onboard ASTRO-F / Hideo Matsuhara and Hiroshi Murakami
  • Infrared All-Sky Survey with ASTRO-F / Hiroshi Shibai
  • ISOGAL Survey of the Intermediate Galactic Bulge: Mass-losing AGB Stars in Galactic Bulge ISOGAL Fields / D. K. Ojha and A. Omont
  • A Sensitive VLA Image Covering the SIRTF First-Look Survey Area / Q. F. Yin, J. J. Condon and W. D. Cotton
  • The Virgo High-Resolution CO-Line Survey / Y. Sofue, J. Koda, H. Nakanishi, S. Onodera, K. Kohno, A. Tomita and S. K. Okumura
  • Education and Understanding of Astronomy through Total Solar Eclipses / E. Hiei, N. Takahashi and Y. Iizuka
  • The Establishment of an Astrophysics Course in the Philippines through the IAU TAD / Cynthia P. Celebre
  • New Trends in Astronomy Education: A "Mapping" Strategy in Teaching and Learning Astronomy / Sergei Gulyaev
  • Astronomical Education in Azerbaijan: Existing Heritage, Current Status and Perspectives / Elchin S. Babaev
  • The Completion and Release of the AAO/UKST H[alpha] Survey / Q. A. Parker and S. Phillipps / H[alpha] survey consortium and associates
  • Star Formation in the Southern Hemisphere: A Millimetre-Wave Survey of Dense Southern Cores / Paul A. Jones, Maria R. Hunt-Cunningham, John B. Whiteoak and Graeme L. White
  • Star Formation Studies with SIRIUS - JHK Simultaneous Near-infrared Camera / Yasushi Nakajima, Chie Nagashima, Takahiro Nagayama, Daisuke Baba, Daisuke Kato, Mikio Kurita, Tetsuya Nagata, Shuji Sato, Motohide Tamura, Takahiro Naoi, Hidehiko Nakaya and Koji Sugitani
  • Evolution of Spatial Structure of Star Clusters / W. P. Chen and C. W. Chen
  • Molecular Line Studies of Galactic Young Stellar Objects / Ji Yang, Ruiqing Mao, Zhibo Jiang, Tao Geng and Yi-ping Ao
  • Observation of Interstellar H[subscript 3][superscript +] Using Subaru IRCS: the Galactic Center / Miwa Goto, Benjamin J. McCall, Thomas R. Geballe, Tomonori Usuda, Naoto Kobayashi, Hiroshi Terada and Takeshi Oka
  • The Formation of Molecular Clouds: the Origin of Supersonic Turbulence / Shu-ichiro Inutsuka and Hiroshi Koyama
  • Shocked Atomic and Molecular Gas in Supernova Remnants / Bon-Chul Koo
  • Discovery of Overionized Plasma in the Mixed-Morphology SNR IC 443 / Masahiro T. Kawasaki, Masanobu Ozaki and Fumiaki Nagase
  • On the Relation between Abundances in Planetary Nebulae and Their Central Star Evolution / Mezak A. Ratag
  • The Two Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS): The Instrument, Data and Science / Bruce A. Peterson
  • The Deep-Infrared Universe Seen in the Sabaru Deep Field / Tomonori Totani
  • The Cluster 'Sphere of Influence': Tracking Star Formation with Environment via H[alpha] Surveys / Warrick J. Couch, Michael Balogh, Richard Bower and Ian Lewis
  • A Search for Galaxy Clustering at z=4 Using an SDSS Quasar Pair / Osamu Nakamura, Masataka Fukugita, Mamoru Doi, Nobunari Kashikawa and Donald P. Schneider
  • The Discovery of Submillimeter Galaxies / A. W. Blain
  • Prospects for Detecting Neutral Hydrogen Using 21-cm Radiation from Large Scale Structure at High Redshifts / J. S. Bagla and Martin White
  • Cosmological Constant with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect towards Distant Galaxy Clusters / Masato Tsuboi, Takashi Kasuga, Atsushi Miyazaki, Nario Kuno, Akihiro Sakamoto and Hiroshi Matsuo
  • An Ellipsoid Model for the Halo Density Profile / Y. P. Jing
  • Star Formation History in Galaxies Inferred from Stellar Elemental Abundance Patterns / T. Shigeyama and T. Tsujimoto
  • Cosmic Star Formation History Associated with QSO Activity: An Approach by the Black Hole to Bulge Mass Correlation / Y. P. Wang, T. Yamada and Y. Taniguchi
  • Evolution of Low- and Intermediate-Mass X-Ray Binaries / Xiang-Dong Li
  • Raman Scattering and Accretion Disks in Symbiotic Stars / Hee-Won Lee
  • X-ray Observations of the X-ray Binary Pulsar Centaurus X-3 with RXTE / Takayoshi Kohmura and Shunji Kitamoto
  • Peculiar Characteristics of a Hyper-luminous X-ray Source in M82 / Hironori Matsumoto, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Ken-ya Watarai, Shin Mineshige and Satoki Matsushita
  • X-ray Study of Thermal Composite Supernova Remnants 3C391 and G349.7+0.2 / Yang Chen and Patrick Slane
  • Time-Dependent Properties of Black-Hole Accretion Flow / S. Mineshige
  • Results in Gamma-Ray Burst Observations and the Use of GRBs to Explore the Early Universe / Toshio Murakami, Hisayo Izawa and Daisuke Yonetoku
  • A Deep Optical Observation of an Enigmatic Unidentified Gamma-Ray Source 3EG J1835+5918 / Tomonori Totani, Wataru Kawasaki and Nobuyuki Kawai
  • Magnetic Reconnection in the Accretion Disk Corona of Compact Stars / I. V. Oreshina, A. V. Oreshina and B. V. Somov
  • General Relativistic Simulation of Magnetohydrodynamic Energy Extraction of a Rotating Black Hole / Shinji Koide
  • High Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos / H. Athar
  • Associated Absorption in Radio-loud Quasars and the Growth of Radio Sources / Richard W. Hanstead and Joanne C. Baker
  • Very Extended Emission-Line Region around the Seyfert 2 Galaxy NGC 4388 / M. Yoshida, M. Yagi, S. Okamura, K. Aoki, Y. Ohyama, Y. Komiyama, N. Yasuda, M. Iye, N. Kashikawa, M. Doi, H. Furusawa, M. Hamabe, M. Kimura, M. Miyazaki, S. Miyazaki, F. Nakata, M. Ouchi, M. Sekiguchi, K. Shimasaku and H. Ohtani
  • Evidence for the Evolutionary Sequence of Blazars: Different Types of Accretion Flows in BL Lac Objects / Xinwu Cao
  • 3-4 [mu]m Spectroscopy of 17 Seyfert 2 Nuclei: Quantification of the Compact Starburst Contribution / Masatoshi Imanishi
  • A High Resolution Imaging Survey of CO, HCN and HCO[superscript +] Lines towards Nearby Seyfert Galaxies / Kotaro Kohno
  • Starburst-AGN Connections from High Redshift to the Present Day / Yoshiaki Taniguchi

  • A New Picture of QSO Formation / Masayuki Umemura and Nozomu Kawakatu
  • Distribution of the Faraday Rotation Measure in AGN Jets as a Clue for Deciding a Valid Theoretical Model / Y. Uchida, M. Nakamura, H. Kigure and S. Hirose
  • Cosmic Rays in the Large Scale Structure of the Universe / Dongsu Ryu
  • Highlights form the First Five Years of the VSOP Mission / H. Hirabayashi, P. G. Edwards, Y. Murata, Y. Asaki, D. W. Murphy, H. Kobayashi, M. Inoue, S. Kameno and T. Umemoto
  • Progress on Numerical Simulations of Solar Flares and Control Mass Ejections / Kazunari Shibata
  • An Investigation of Loop-Type CMEs with a 3D MHD Simulation / J. Kuwabara, Y. Uchida and R. Cameron
  • Basic Principles and Examples of Solar-type Flare Modelling / Boris V. Somov, Takeo Kosugi and Taro Sakao
  • Energy Accumulation for the Bastille Flare / A. I. Podgorny, I. A. Bilenko, S. Minami, M. Morimoto and I. M. Podgorny
  • Fine Structures Observed by the Chinese Solar Radio Broadband Fast Dynamic Spectrometers / Yihua Yan, Qijun Fu, Yuying Liu, Zhijun Chen, Hongao Wu, Fuying Xu, Zhihai Qin, Min Wang and Zhiguo Xia
  • Flux Tube Oscillations and Coronal Heating / Y. Sobouti, K. Karami and S. Nasiri
  • Binary Evolution - Problems and Applications / Zhanwen Han
  • Annual Parallax Measurements of Mira-Type Variables with Phase-Referencing VLBI Observations / Tomoharu Kurayama and Tetsuo Sasao
  • Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Lower Atmosphere / C. Fang, P. F. Chen and M. D. Ding
  • Future Microlensing Observations / Cheongho Han
  • A Perturbative Approach to Astrometric Microlensing due to an Extrasolar Planet / Hideki Asada
  • Detecting Astrometric Microlensing with VERA (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry) / Mareki Honma and Tomoharu Kurayama
  • The Dark Matter Halo of the Gravitational Lens Galaxy 0047-2808 / Randall B. Wayth and Rachel L. Webster
  • The New Era of Precision Microlensing / Andrew Gould
  • Secular Component of Apparent Proper Motion of QSOs Induced by Gravitational Lens of the Galaxy / Kouji Ohnishi, Mizuhiko Hosokawa and Toshio Fukushima
  • Chandra Spectroscopy and Mass Estimation of the Lensing Cluster of Galaxies CL0024+17 / Naomi Ota, Makoto Hattori, Etienne Pointecouteau and Kazuhisa Mitsuda
  • Towards Direct Detection of Substructure around Galaxies - Quasar Mesolensing / Atsunori Yonchara, Masayuki Umemura and Hajime Susa
  • An Analytical Model for the Distribution of Image Separations in Gravitational Lensing / Premana W. Premadi and Hugo Martel
  • Summary of Business Sessions / Satoru Ikeuchi.