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• Massive stars, massive close binaries, Wolf-Rayet
  stars, stellar winds, mass loss in hot stars,
  stellar wind theories were hot topics during the
  eighties and many symposia were devoted to this
  types of research
• Theories -sometimes controversial- were developed
  and defended with enthusiasm

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In this respect a juicy anecdote
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The players
ED
Peter Conti
and myself ...
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Location
Vancouver Island excursion on the lake
IAU Symposium 83
Mass loss and evolution of O-type stars
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• Ed X-rays will appear near the end of close
  binary evolution when the initial secondary
  approaches its Roche lobe
• He strongly argued that given the time scales
  there ought to be many more OB- stars with NS
  (or BH) companions which had not yet begun to to
  produce X-rays
• Peter Conti felt that this could not be right

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As we know now, the X-ray production starts
pretty early in the process after the production
of the NS (BH) And the (initial secondary) wind
is already blowing and feeding the collapsed
object,
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• We went for an excursion on a boat. During that
  excursion Peter and Ed had a vivid discussion on
  this particular point, and this led to a bet
• Eds statement There are at least 10 (maybe 5)
  OB stars in the Bright Star Catalogue (brighter
  than V6,5) that have NS (BH) companions, but no
  X-rays
• Peter did not agree
• The bet was to check this within two years (1985)
  the loser should offer a bottle of Romanée-Conti
• I should be referee
• We thought, simple minds as we are, that the
  price was something like 50

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The rest of the story occurs in BoulderEd buys
a bottle of Romanée-Conti....
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So, Ed asked AnneMike, when she went to the
grocers to get her purchases for the kitchen, to
add a case of Romanée-Conti. In the shop she was
sent over to a wine store. She was greeted with
consternation over her request for a case, but
she managed to get a single bottle for a few
hundred .When Peter and Carolyn were both in
Holland Ed gave them the bottle and they brought
it home.It rested a year or two and was opened
when Ed, myself and my spouse were in Boulder for
a conference at the university.Carolyn had
cooked for the five of us. Only the poor AnneMike
was lacking at the party.
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happy winner
sad loser
lucky referee
apploading spouse
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• Now, Peter and I feel a little bit guilty the
  poor guy Ed had to take a mortgage on his house
  to pay off the price of a Romanée-Conti (at this
  moment it is approximately 3750 or 5000 )
• So we offer him a new bottle of wine ...

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• Of a special year from a special chateau