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A Baker’s Dozen: Unsolved Problems with The RS Canum Venaticorum and by Draconis Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Douglas S. Hall
Douglas S. Hall*
Affiliation:
Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, TN 37235, U.S.A.

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The theme of this Joint Meeting of Commissions 10, 27, 40, 42, 44, and 48 is “Close Binaries and Stellar Activity”. At the time this meeting was initially conceived, we took stellar activity to mean activity such as we observe on the Sun: spots, flares, chromospheric emission, variable radio and X-ray emission, coronas, winds, and so forth. That is why the series of seven reviews presented at this meeting will deal for the most part with convective stars, in particular with the RS CVn-type and BY Dra-type stars, which we know are active in so many of these ways.

It had been planned that Steven N. Shore would review briefly the situation from a theoretical viewpoint (briefly, I say, because theoretical treatment of the problem is still in the infant stages). Reference can be made, however to the contribution he presented at I.A.U. Symposium No. 88 in Toronto.

One way to open this meeting, I hope a useful way, is simply to list some unsolved problems. Those on my list may not be equal in importance or difficulty. Different problems would no doubt appear on someone else’s list. It may even turn out that, after we have heard these reviews, a number of my unsolved problems have already been solved or soon will be, but that would be a pleasant surprise rather than a disappointment.

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Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 5: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XVIIth General Assembly of the IAU, 1979 , 1980 , pp. 841 - 845
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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