Mass-Losing Pulsating Stars and Their Circumstellar Matter: Observations and Theory (Hardcover, 2003)

I Recent Results of Massive Photometry.- The Sequence of Mass-Losing AGB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds.- Three Aspects of Red Giant Studies in the Magellanic Clouds.- Luminosities of AGB Variables.- Photometric Properties of Long-Period Variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud.- Stellar Sources in the ISOGAL Intermediate Bulge Fields.- GAIA: AGB Stars as Tracers of Star Formation Histories in the Galaxy and Beyond.- Characteristics of AGB Stars in the ISOGAL, MACHO and Other Databases.- II Pulsation and Properties of Mass-Losing Stars.- Structure and Evolution of AGB Stars: Current Understandings and Beyond.- Nonlinear Properties of the Semi-Regular Variable Stars.- Regular and Irregular Pulsations of Luminous Blue Variables.- Mass-Losing and Pulsating AGB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds.- The Galactic Kinematics of Mira Variables.- Period Evolution in Mira Variables.- Chaotic Pulsations in Irregular Variables.- Time Dependent Modelling of Mass Loss on the AGB.- Asymmetric Mass-Loss on the AGB: Examples from IRAS Data.- The Extended Atmosphere and Evolution of the RV Tauri Star, R Scuti.- Monochromatic Radii: a Tool of Mira Diagnostics.- The Wigner Distribution for Pulsation Behaviors in Post-AGB.- An Implication on the Excitation Mechanism of AGB Variables.- Evolution of Binaries Containing an AGB Giant.- On the Motion of an Infinitesimal Mass in the Gravitational Potential of a Binary Star System.- Numerical Investigation of the Stability of Motion of a Mass Element Ejected from a Component of a Binary Star System.- 2:1 Resonance in RV Tauri Stars.- The Determination of Intrinsic Polarization for RV Tauri Stars.- Multi-Color Interferometric Observations of Mira Stars.- Origin and Propagation of Shocks in the Atmospheres of Mira-Type Stars.- Theoretical Color Mass-Loss Relations for O-Rich Mira Stars.- High-Precision Measurements of Cool Giant Stars with the VLTI.- The Stability of Magneto-Hydrodynamic Stellar Winds.- III Optical and IR Observations of Circumstellar Matter.- Confronting Consistent Dust Shell Models with Observations of Long-Period Variable Stars.- Mid-Infrared Observations of Mass-Losing Red Giants.- High-Resolution Imaging of Dust Shells.- ISO/SWS Observations of the Extended Atmospheres and Their Time Variations.- The Circumstellar Environment of AGB Stars Studied by Polarimetry.- Violet Spectra of Carbon Stars Associated with Silicate Features.- Multiple Shells around IRC+10216.- NIR Monitoring of Star Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds.- The Brightest AGB Stars of the Leo I Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy.- Molecules and Dust around Oxygen-Rich AGB Stars.- Detection of Extended Water Vapor Atmosphere of Mira by Near-Infrared Spectroimagery.- NIR Survey of Variable Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud.- Mass Loss History of the Local Miras.- Near-Infrared Monitoring to Study the Transition from AGB to Post-AGB Stars.- Identification and NIR Photometry of the Arecibo Sample of OH/IR Stars.- Infrared Properties of 0-/C-Rich MIRAs Close to the Galactic Plane.- Water Vapor in the Outer Atmospheres of Red Giants Probed by High-Resolution, Mid-Infrared Observations.- The Mass-Loss History of Carbon Stars Probed by CO Line and Dust Continuum Emission.- An Analysis of the 2.6 - 3.7 Micron Spectrum of R Dor.- Annual Parallax Measurements of Mira-Type Variables with Phase-Reference VLBI Observation.- Mapping the Circumstellar Envelope of OH26.5+0.6.- A Study of OH and H2O Masers in the Circumstellar Envelopes around Miras.- Variations of Physical Parameters in Circumstellar Envelopes around Carbon-Rich Mira Variables.- Radiative Transfer Modeling of Periodic Mass-Loss Enhancement during the AGB Phase.- Spatially Resolved 3 ?m Spectroscopy of IRAS 22272 + 5435.- Formation and Evolution of Dust Clumps around Cool Stars.- The Polarimetric Evidence of the Circumstellar Dust in Symbiotic Star Z Andromedae.- Bispectrum Speckle Interferometry of the Carbon Star IRC + 10216.- Ground Based MIR Observations of C-Rich Proto Planetary