Welcome to the 9th Meeting on Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects
This meeting is the 9th edition of a series of biennal conferences started in 2003. These conferences provide experts from around the world the opportunity to regularly discuss results and thoughts relative to hot subdwarf stars and other related objects. The main topics discussed are
Progenitors, progenies, origin and evolution of hot subdwarf stars : standard and alternative pathways
Hot subdwarfs in the field, clusters, and galaxies
Impact of large surveys and hot subdwarf population studies
Atmospheric properties of hot subdwarf stars
Hot subdwarfs in binary systems
Pulsating hot subdwarfs and asteroseismology
Hot subdwarfs as laboratories for stellar physics : convection, diffusion, atomic data, tides, mergers, common envelopes
Links to extremely low mass white dwarfs and other related objects
The conference is organised by the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP) and will take place from June 23 – 28 atAzureva Hendaye, near Biarritz, France.