International Workshop on AM CVn Stars

Radboud University, Nijmegen, 3–8 July 2005

Conference Picture

Left to right: Paul Groot, Danny Steeghs, Brian Warner, Patrick Woudt, Klaus Reinsch, Gijs Roelofs, Marc van der Sluys, Jan-Erik Solheim, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Wilbert van Ham, Kinwah Wu, GianLuca Israel, Susana Barros, Joe Patterson, Tom Marsh, Gavin Ramsay, Gijs Nelemans, Lev Yungelson, Luisa Morales-Rueda, Dean Townsley, Thorsten Nagel, Matt Wood, Simone Dall'Osso, Chris Deloye, Else van den Besselaar, Jim Liebert, and Pasi Hakala.

Thanks all for a great workshop!

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Online Proceedings

All talks below are in either PDF or Microsoft Office (PPT, DOC) format. Also available for download is the abstracts booklet in PDF format.

Monday July 4: Photometry & Spectroscopy

Brian Warner

History, comments & thoughts

Joe Patterson

Orbital and superhump periods in AM CVn stars

Jan-Erik Solheim

Non-stationary features in lightcurves of AM CVn and HP Lib

Patrick Woudt

High-speed photometry of outbursting AM CVn systems

Danny Steeghs

Spectroscopic diagnostics of AM CVn binaries

Tuesday July 5: Ultracompact Systems

Gavin Ramsay

Observational overview of RX J0806 and RX J1914 (V407 Vul)

Susana Barros

Photometry of the ultracompact binaries V407 Vul and RX J0806.3+1527

Klaus Reinsch

The nature of the ultrashort-period system RX J0806.3+1527

GianLuca Israel

Ten years of phase coherent monitoring of RX J0806.3+1527 in the optical and X rays

Simone Dall'Osso

The Unipolar Inductor model coupled to gravitational wave emission:

implications for RX J0806+15 and RX J1914+24

Kinwah Wu

Unipolar-induction model for ultra-compact double degenerate systems

Tom Marsh

Orbital period changes in ultracompact double white dwarfs

Wednesday July 6: Physical Models

Matt Wood

Superhumps in AM CVn binaries

Thorsten Nagel

Modelling accretion discs in AM CVn systems

Patrick Woudt

The helium nova V445 Puppis

Dean Townsley

Thermal evolution of AM CVn primaries

Chris Deloye

Donor entropy variations: implications for the AM CVn population

Thursday July 7: Surveys & Population

Pasi Hakala

RApid Temporal Survey (RATS) -- searching for new short-period binaries

Luisa Morales-Rueda

Short-period variables in the Faint Sky Variability Survey

Gijs Roelofs

Recent results on AM CVn, `SN2003aw', and SDSS J1240-0159

Paul Groot

The distances to AM CVn stars

Else van den Besselaar

The population of red dwarf--white dwarf binaries

Friday July 8: Formation & Evolution

Lev Yungelson

Helium subdwarfs as progenitors of AM CVn stars

Philipp Podsiadlowski

The CV channel for the formation of AM CVn binaries

Marc van der Sluys

Modelling the evolution of double white dwarf systems

Jim Liebert

The origin and evolution of AM CVn binaries

Gijs Nelemans

Modelling selection effects in AM CVn binaries