Rood's Conference Proceedings, etc.

Conference proceedings, unpublished work, etc. not available on ADS.

Many papers are in the form of gziped postscript. In some cases uncompressed postscript versions are also listed. These are typically 3 to 4 times bigger. If you have trouble retriving documents in this format please email rtr@virginia.edu.

Stellar Astrophysics Conference Proceedings

• Rood, R. T., Crocker, D. A. 1989, Horizontal Branch Evolution, in The Use of Pulsating Stars in Fundamental Problems of Astronomy , ed. E. G. Schmidt (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge), 103--121. (pdf file)
• Rood, R. T., Beccari, G., Lanzoni, B., Ferraro, F. R., Dalessandro, E. \& Schiavon, R. P. 2008, Ruminations on Horizontal Branch Blue Tails, Mem. Soc. Astro. It., 79, 5 pp
• Beccari, G., Pulone, L., Ferraro, F. R., Lanzoni, B., Fusi Pecci, F., Rood, R. T., and 24 others 2008, The BSS and binary content of NGC~5024 (M53): a combined LBT/HST study, Mem. Soc. Astro. It., 79, 5 pp
• Rood, R. T. 2005, The Effect of Blue Stragglers on the Integrated Light of Stellar Populations , Invited Presentation at Stellar Populations, a Rosetta Stone for Galaxy Formation Ringberg Castle, July 04-08, 2005
• Rood, R. T. 2000, The Effect of CNO and Enhanced Alpha-Elements on Globular Cluster Stars, in The Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way: Stars vs. Clusters, ed. F. Matteucci (Kluwer: Dortrect), 197--203
• Rood, R. T., Dorman, B., Ferraro, F. R., Paltrinieri, B., Fusi Pecci, F., 1998, UV Bright Stars in Globular Clusters (2MB), in Ultraviolet Astrophysics---Beyond the IUE Final Archive, eds. R. Gonz\'alez-Riestra, W. Wamsteker, \& R. A. Harris (ESA: Noordwijk), 515--522
• Paltrinieri, B., Ferraro, F. R., Fusi Pecci, F., Rood, R. T., Dorman, B. 1998, UV-CMDs: Searching for Blue Straggler Stars in the Cores of Galactic Globular Clusters, in Ultraviolet Astrophysics---Beyond the IUE Final Archive, eds. R. Gonz\'alez-Riestra, W. Wamsteker, \& R. A. Harris (ESA: Noordwijk), 565--568
• Ferraro, F. R., Paltrinieri, B., Fusi Pecci, F., Rood, R. T., Dorman, B. 1998, Faint UV Objects in the Core of Galactic Globular Clusters: A New Sub-class of Cataclysmic Variable?, in Ultraviolet Astrophysics---Beyond the IUE Final Archive, eds. R. Gonz\'alez-Riestra, W. Wamsteker, \& R. A. Harris (ESA: Noordwijk), 561--564
• Rood, R. T. 1998, Non-variable Horizontal-Branch Stars (25kB), in Fundamental Stellar Properties: The Interaction Between Theory and Observation, eds. T. R. Bedding, A. J. Booth, \& J. Davis (Dordrect: Kluwer), 363--368 (Uncompressed postscript)
• Rood, R. T., Whitney, J. H., \& D'Cruz, N. L. 1997, Opisthodromism on the Horizontal Branch? (Ickofest contribution) (970kB), in Advances in Stellar Evolution, eds. R. T. Rood \& A. Renzini (Cambridge: CUP), 74--83 Uncompressed postscript
• D'Cruz, N. L., Dickens, R. J., Hatzidimitriou, D., Rood, R. T., \& O'Connell, R. W. 1997, Calcium Abundances of Blue Horizontal Branch Stars in Omega Centauri (30kB), in Advances in Stellar Evolution, eds. R. T. Rood \& A. Renzini (Cambridge: CUP), 100-104
• Rood, R. T., & Crocker, D. A. 1997 ``Some Random Unpublished Results of Possible Interest,'' This contains some useful analytic fits and a discussion of the ``brightest giant problem'' in globular clusters

3-Helium and Other Radio Astronomy Papers

• Rood, R. T., Bania, T. M., Balser, D. S., 2007, An Old Dog's Last Hunt:The Last Observations of the NRAO Green Bank 140 Foot Radio Telescope, in But it Was Fun: the first forty years of radio astronomy at Green Bank, eds. F. J. Lockman, F. D. Ghigo, \& D. S. Balser (Green Bank: NRAO), 450--454
• Quireza, C., Rood, R. T., Bania, T. M., Balser, D. S., Maciel, W. J. 2006, The Abundance Gradient in the Galactic H II Regions, in From Stars to Galaxies: Building the pieces to build up the Universe, eds. A. Vallenari, R. Tantalo, L. Portinari & A. Moretti, (San Francisco: Astron. Soc. Pacific), 6pp, in press
• Bania, T.M., Rood, R.T., & Balser, D.S. 2007, The Milky Way 3-Helium Abundance, in Space Sciences Series of ISSI , 27, eds. G. Gloeckler, G. Mason, \& R. von Steiger, (Springer: Berlin), 12pp, in the press
• Balser, D. S., Bania, T. M., Rood, R. T., \& Goss, W. M. 2005, Observations of 3-Helium in Planetary Nebulae, in Chemical Abundances and Mixing in Stars in the Milky Way and its Satellites, eds. S. Randich, L. Pasquini (Springer: Berlin), 35--36
• Bania, T. M., Rood, R. T., Balser, D. S., & Quireza, C. 2005, First Epoch Observations of 3-Helium with the Green Bank Telescope, in Chemical Abundances and Mixing in Stars in the Milky Way and its Satellites, eds. S. Randich, L. Pasquini (Springer: Berlin), 349--350
• Bania, T. M., Charbonnel, C., Rood, R. T., Balser, D. S. 2002, The Cosmic Helium-3 Abundance: Implications for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Stellar Evolution, and Galactic Chemical Evolution , in The Cosmological Model eds. J. T. Thanh Van, C. Magneville
• Rood, R. T., Bania, T. M., & Balser, D. S. 2001, The Origin and Evolution of 3-Helium in Cosmic Evolution, eds. M. Lemoine, E. Vangioni-Flam (World Scientific: Singapore). The unexpurgated version
• Bania, T. M., Charbonnel, C., Rood, R. T., Balser, D. S. 2000, The Cosmic Helium-3 Abundance: Implications for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Stellar Evolution, and Galactic Chemical Evolution in ed. C. Magenville,
• Bania, T. M., Rood, R. T., Balser, D. S. 2000, The Primordial 3-Helium at Last? in The Light Elements and Their Evolution, eds. L. da Silva, M. Spite, J. R. de Medeiros (ASP: San Franciso), 214--223
• Bania, T. M., Rood, R. T., \& Balser, D. S. 1999, 3-Helium in Obscure H II Regions, Poster from Chicago AAS Metting, June, 1999, BAAS, 31, 888
• Rood, R. T., Bania, T. M., Balser, D. S., Wilson, T. L. 1997, 3-Helium: Status and Prospects (180kB) , in The Primordial Nuclei and Their Galactic Evolution, eds. N. Prantzos, M. Tosi, R. von Steiger, Space Science Reviews, 84, 185--199
• Rood, R. T., Bania, T. M., Wilson, T. L., \& Balser, D. S. 1995, The Quest for the Cosmic Abundance of 3-He, in ESO/EIPC Workshop on the Light Elements, ed. P. Crane (Heidelberg: Springer), 201--214

SETI Papers

• SETI at the spin flip line frequency of positronium Mauersberger, R., Wilson, T.L., Rood, R. T., Bania, T. M., Hein, H., \& Linhart, A. 1996, of Positronium'', A&A, 306, 141--144
• Search for Interstellar Beacons at the 3He+ Hyperfine Transition Frequency, Bania, T. M., \& Rood, R. T. 1993, in Third Decennial US/USSR Conference on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: PASP Conf. Ser. 47, ed. G. S. Shostak (Astron. Soc. Pac.: San Francisco), 357--365
• The Nature of Technological Civilizations, R. T. Rood 1986 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, eds. K. Kellermann & G. A. Seielstad (NRAO: Green Bank WV), 215--220