The RR Lyrae 2017 Conference

Conference program

The final conference program

Abstract Book

List of poster contributions

Conference presentations

Session I: Ground-Based Surveys

• Maurizio Salaris (invited), Structure and evolution of RR Lyrae and Cepheids, PDF
• Dante Minniti (invited), Classical Pulsators in Large IR Photometric Surveys, PDF
• Zdenek Prudil, The Oosterhoff dichotomy in the Galactic bulge, PDF
• Gustavo Medina Toledo, Distant RR Lyrae from HiTS: Exploring the outskirts of the Milky Way, PDF
• Martin Groenewegen, Properties of Anomalous and Type-II Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds, PDF

Session II: Classical Pulsators in Stellar Systems

• Marcella Marconi (invited), Studying stellar systems with classical pulsators, PDF
• Hui Dong, Identification of RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster, PPTX, Animation, MP4
• Nina Hernitschek, The geometry of Sagittarius Stream from Pan-STARRS1 3pi RR Lyrae, PDF
• Anna Jacyszyn-Dobrzeniecka, Three-dimensional structure of the Magellanic System using OGLE Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars, PDF
• Bertrand Lemasle, Chemical composition of Cepheids in the Milky Way and in the Magellanic Clouds, PDF
• Dorota Skowron, Photometric metallicity from OGLE-IV RRab stars in the Magellanic Clouds, PDF

Session III: Classical Pulsators from Space

• Lorenzo Rimoldini, All-sky RR Lyrae stars in the Gaia data, PDF
• László Molnár (invited), Letters from the revolution: how is space photometry changing our view of stars, PDF
• Emese Plachy, K2 photometry of RR Lyrae stars, PDF
• Robert Szabó, The Kepler Pixel Project, PDF
• Ottó Hanyecz, New RR Lyrae stars in the original Kepler field, PDF
• Geza Kovacs, Big signals, small signals, systematics, PDF

Session IV: Blazhko Effect and Other Dynamical Phenomena

• Zoltan Kolláth (invited), Modeling and/or understanding the Blazhko effect, PDF
• József Benkö, Blazhko light curves - non-modulated and harmonic detuned signals, PDF
• Radek Smolec, Unstable standard candles - periodic modulation of pulsation in Magellanic Clouds' Cepheids, PDF
• Ennio Poretti, Cyclic variations on the periods of RR Lyr and Cepheid stars, PDF
• Maria Süveges, Beyond strictly repetitive radial-mode pulsation: time-resolved analysis of the pulsation of OGLE Cepheids, PDF
• Henryka Netzel, First-overtone RR Lyrae stars in the OGLE collection, PDF

Session V: Period-Color-Luminosity Relations

• Jan Lub, Metallicity dependence of RR Lyrae absolute magnitudes and GAIA, PPTX
• Johanna Jurcsik, Baade-Wesselink analysis of RR Lyrae stars in the globular cluster M3, PPT
• Matteo Monelli, WINERED as a stepping stone for cosmic distance scale, PDF

Session VI: Interferometry, Radial Velocities and p-factor

• Richard Anderson (invited), Radial velocity observations of classical pulsators, PDF
• Pierre Kervella (invited), Interferometry of classical pulsators, PDF
• Simon Borgniet, Deriving the pulsation velocities and temperatures of Cepheids and other pulsators from high-resolution spectra, PDF
• Nicolas Nardetto, The atmosphere, the p-factor and the bright visible circumstellar environment of the prototype of classical Cepheids delta Cep, PDF
• Valeryi Vasilyev, Spectroscopic properties of a multi-dimensional Cepheid model, PDF

Session VII: New Phenomena

• Nancy Evans, Outward from Cepheids, PDF, PPT, Abstract, TXT
• Pawel Pietrukowicz, The discovery of Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators, PDF

Session VIII: Binarity

• Bogumil Pilecki, Cepheids in eclipsing binaries. What and how we can learn about them, PDF
• Marek Skarka, On the interpretation of the long-term cyclic period variations, PDF
• Gergely Hajdu, Continued search of RR Lyrae binary systems towards the Galactic bulge, ODP

Invited Speakers

• ANDERSON, Richard, ESO, Germany
  Radial Velocity Observations of Classical Pulsators
• CLEMENTINI, Gisella, Bologna Astronomical Observatory, Italy
  Gaia and Classical Pulsators
• KERVELLA, Pierre, Universidad de Chile & LESIA, France
  Interferometry of Classical Pulsators
• KOLLÁTH, Zoltan, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
  Modeling and/or Understanding the Blazhko Effect
• MARCONI, Marcella, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Italy
  Studying Stellar Systems with Classical Pulsators
• MINNITI, Dante, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile
  Classical Pulsators in Infrared Photometric Surveys
• MOLNÁR, Laszlo, Konkoly Observatory, Hungary
  Letters from the revolution: how is space photometry changing our view of stars
• PIETRZYŃSKI, Grzegorz, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland
  Classical Pulsators in Binary Systems
• SALARIS, Maurizio, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
  Evolution of Classical Pulsators
• SOSZYŃSKI, Igor, Warsaw University Observatory, Poland
  Classical Pulsators in Optical Photometric Surveys
• STORM, Jesper, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Germany
  Distances of Classical Pulsators