Session List

THURSDAY, 16 JANUARY 1997

Session 95. Invited

Oral, Thursday, 8:30-9:20am, Frontenac Ballroom

95.01 Quasar Absorption Lines: The Evolution of Galactic Gas Over Cosmic Time
J. Charlton (Penn State)

Session 96. Cepheids and Supergiant Variable Stars

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

96.01 The Lack of Miras in the Galactic Halo
K. Sarin, M. Jura (UCLA)
96.02 TiO Absorption in Mira Variables
M. W. Castelaz, D. G. Luttermoser, K. Crowe, B. Heaton (East Tenn. St. Univ.)
96.03 Three-Color, Narrow-Band, Near-Infrared Photometry of Mira Stars
B. Rebel (Grinnell College), G. Henson (East Tenn. St. Univ.)
96.04 Red Supergiants in the Local Group Galaxies NGC 6822, M31, and M33
P. Massey (KPNO/NOAO)
96.05 What is Wrong with Empirical Mass-loss Laws?
L. A. Willson, G. H. Bowen (Iowa State U.)
96.06 Long-Term Changes in Mira Stars
J. R. Percy, W. Au, D. Bagby (UToronto)
96.07 Mira: Still Wondrous after 400 Years
T. A. Mahler (Villanova U.), E. F. Guinan (Villanova U.), M. Karovska (Center for Astrophysics)
96.08 New Results on Cepheid Masses
N. R. Evans (SAO), E. Bohm-Vitense (U. Washington), K. Carpenter, R. Robinson (NASA/GSFC), B. Beck-Winchatz (U. Washington)
96.09 Improving the Direct Distance Estimates to Nearby Galaxies Using Detached Eclipsing Binaries and Cepheids. I. New Variables in M31
K. Z. Stanek (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Kaluzny (Warsaw U. Obs.), M. Mateo (U. Michigan), J. Tonry (U. Hawaii)
96.10 Improving the Direct Distance Estimates to Nearby Galaxies Using Detached Eclipsing Binaries and Cepheids. II. New Variables in M33
D. D. Sasselov, M. Krockenberger, K. Z. Stanek (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Kaluzny (Warsaw Univ. Obs.)
96.11 A Test for the Metallicity Dependence of the Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation in the Near Infrared and a New Distance to M31
T. M. Webb, D. L. Welch, C. Wilson (McMaster), P. Stetson (DAO)
96.12 Periodic Variable Star Timing with MACHO Lightcurves
M. Pratt, A. Becker, C. Stubbs (CfPA/U Washington), C. Alcock, D. Alves, K. Cook, S. Marshall, D. Minniti (LLNL), R. Allsman (ANUSF), T. Axelrod, K. Freeman, B. Peterson, A. Rodgers (MSSSO), D. Bennett (Notre Dame), K. Griest, J. Guern, M. Lehner, T. Vandehei (CfPA/UCSD), P. Quinn (ESO), W. Sutherland (Oxford), D. Welch (McMaster)
96.13 Searching for singly-periodic 2H Cepheids in the LMC
A. J. Rorabeck (McMaster), C. Alcock (LLNL/CfPA), R. A. Allsman (MSO/ANU), D. R. Alves (LLNL/CfPA), T. S. Axelrod (MSO/ANU), A. Becker (Washington), D. P. Bennett, K. H. Cook (LLNL/CfPA), K. C. Freeman (MSO/ANU), K. Griest, J. A. Guern, M. J. Lehner (UCSD), S. L. Marshall, D. Minniti (LLNL/CfPA), B. A. Peterson (MSO/ANU), M. R. Pratt (Washington), P. J. Quinn (ESO), A. W. Rodgers (MSO/ANU), C. W. Stubbs (Washington), W. Sutherland (Oxford), D. L. Welch (McMaster)
96.14 The MACHO Project LMC Variable Star Inventory: How Bright Are the R Coronae Borealis Stars?
G. C. Clayton (LSU), D. L. Welch (McMaster), D. Kilkenny (SAAO), C. Alcock, D. Alves, K. H. Cook, S. L. Marshall, D. Minniti (LLNL/CfPA), D. P. Bennett (Notre Dame/CfPA), R. A. Allsman (ANU), A. Becker, M. R. Pratt, C. W. Stubbs (UW/CfPA), T. S. Axelrod, K. C. Freeman, B. A. Peterson, A. W. Rodgers (MSSSO), P. J. Quinn (ESO), K. Griest, J. A. Guern, M. J. Lehner (CfPA/UCSD), W. Sutherland (Oxford)
96.15 The Incidence and Origin of Rotational Modulation in B Supergiant Winds
D. Massa (Hughes STX), R. K. Prinja (Univ. College, London), A. W. Fullerton (MPI, München, Germany), S. P. Owocki, S. R. Cranmer (Bartol Research Inst.)

Session 97. Planetary Nebulae

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

97.01 The Structure and Evolution of planetary Nebulae II
E. Capriotti (Michigan State U.)
97.02 The MHD of moving planetary nebulae
R. Dgani (UT), N. Soker (Haifa Univ., Israel)
97.03 A Small-Beam Survey of Near-Infrared H_2 Emission in Planetary Nebulae
H. Dinerstein, J. Crawford (U. Texas - Austin)
97.04 Ring Planetary Nebulae Ejected from Close Binary Stars
H. E. Bond (STScI), R. Ciardullo (Penn State U.), R. Webbink (U. Illinois)
97.05 Sher #25 in NGC 3603 -- Galactic Twin of SN 1987 A's Progenitor?
E. K. Grebel, W. Brandner (Astron. Inst. U. Wuerzburg), Y. -H. Chu (U. Illinois)
97.06 Bipolar Bubbles, Jets and Rings in Very Low Excitation Planetary Nebulae - First Results from an HST/WFPC2 Imaging Survey
R. Sahai, J. Trauger (JPL/ Caltech)
97.07 The Nature of Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula
A. Burkert, C. R. O'Dell (MPIfA, Heidelberg)
97.08 Molecular Hydrogen Imaging of Bipolar Planetary Nebulae
J. L. Hora (IfA/U. Hawaii), W. B. Latter (NASA/Ames)
97.09 ISO Observations of the Hydrogen-poor Planetary Nebula Abell 78
N. J. Lame, J. P. Harrington (UMd), K. Borkowski (NCSU), J. Bregman (NASA/Ames), Z. Tsvetanov (JHU)
97.10 X-ray View of Wind-Wind Interactions in Planetary Nebulae
G. M. Conway, Y. -H. Chu (U. Illinois), T. H. Chang (U. Texas)
97.11 High Dispersion Spectroscopy of the Young Planetary Nebula M2-9
S. Torres-Peimbert, A. Arrieta (IAUNAM)
97.12 Wind Abundances for the [WC]-type Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae
R. L. Kingsburgh (York U.), M. J. Barlow (University College London), I. Dashevsky (York U.)
97.13 Planetary Nebulae in M31: Oxygen Abundances and Comparison with the Bright Planetary Nebulae in the LMC
M. G. Richer, G. Stasinska (DAEC, Obs. Meudon), M. L. McCall (York U.)
97.14 The Abundance of ^3He and Evidence for a Large Halo in the Planetary Nebulae NGC3242
D. S. Balser (NRAO), T. M. Bania (Boston U.), R. T. Rood (U. Virginia), T. L. Wilson (MPIfR)
97.15 Li and ^13C Enhancement in the Frosty Leo Nebula
C. Barnbaum (STScI), M. Morris (UCLA), T. Forveille (Obs. de Grenoble)

Session 98. AGN-Absorption/Emission

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

98.01 The Sub--Parsec H_2O Maser and 22 GHz Continuum Emission in NGC 3079
A. Trotter, J. Moran, L. Greenhill (CfA)
98.02 Properties of the molecular gas in Seyfert galaxies
P. P. Papadopoulos, E. R. Seaquist (U. Toronto)
98.03 The Deep Silicate Absorption Feature in IRAS 08572+3915 and other Infrared Galaxies
C. G. Wynn-Williams, C. C. Dudley (U. Hawaii)
98.04 Mid-Infrared Forbidden Lines In Active Galactic Nuclei: NGC 1068, NGC 4151, and NGC 5506
M. A. Greenhouse (SI/NASM), T. L. Hayward (Cornell U.), S. Satyapal (SI/NASM), D. H. Wooden (NASA/ARC), J. W. Miles (SI/NASM), F. C. Witteborn, J. D. Bregman (NASA/ARC), C. E. Woodward (U. Wyoming), M. A. Malkan (UCLA), J. Fischer (NRL), H. A. Smith (SI/NASM)
98.05 Physical Conditions of the Coronal Line Region in Seyfert Galaxies
J. Ferguson, K. Korista, G. Ferland (U. Kentucky)
98.06 Photoionization Models of AGN Disk Winds
N. Murray, J. Chiang (CITA, U. Toronto), J. Chiang (NRL)
98.07 FeII Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei: Iron Project Atomic Data and Exact Radiative Transfer
T. A. A. Sigut (High Altitude Obs.), A. K. Pradhan (Ohio State U.)
98.08 Can Quasars Be Used As Cosmological Candles?
K. Korista, G. Ferland (Univ. Kentucky), J. Baldwin (CTIO)
98.09 High-Ionization Broad Absorption Lines in the Quasar SBS1542+541
R. C. Telfer, W. Zheng, G. A. Kriss, A. F. Davidsen (JHU), R. F. Green (NOAO)
98.10 Are Radio-Loud Quasars Rebellious or Are Radio-Quiets Just Plain Untalented?
M. Vestergaard (Cph.Univ\,and\,SAO), B. J. Wilkes (SAO), P. Barthel (RUG)
98.11 EUV and Soft X-ray Observations of the Seyfert Galaxies MRK 279, MRK 478, and TON S180
C. Y. Hwang (ASIAA), S. Bowyer (CEA)
98.12 Spatially Resolved HUT Spectra of NGC1068
J. P. Grimes, G. A. Kriss, A. F. Davidsen (JHU)
98.13 Far-UV Emission-Line Properties of Mrk 478 and PG1211+143
W. Zheng, G. A. Kriss, A. F. Davidsen (JHU)

Session 99. Blazars

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

99.01 The Radio Properties of BL Lac Objects
M. F. Aller, H. D. Aller, P. A. Hughes (U. Michigan)
99.02 The Michigan Variability Program
H. D. Aller, M. F. Aller (U. Michigan)
99.03 Optical Variability of the BL Lac Object 1418+546
T. J. Balonek (Colgate Univ.), A. F. Schirmer (Swarthmore Coll.), J. S. Kern, C. A. Tremonti (Colgate Univ.)
99.04 Optical-UV Observations of OJ 287
E. S. Howard (U. Denver and SARA Obs.), J. R. Webb (Florida International U. and SARA Obs.), T. J. Balonek (Colgate U., Foggy Bottom Obs.), P. Boltwood (Boltwood Obs., Canada), S. Clements, D. Nair, A. G. Smith (U. Florida, Rosemary Hill Obs.), M. Kidger (Inst. of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, Tenerife, Spain), H. J. Lehto, T. Pursimi, A. Sillanpaa, L. O. Takalo (Tuorla Obs.), B. McCollum (CSC/IUE Obs.), E. Pian (STScI), A. Sadun (Agnes Scott Coll.), C. R. Schrader (CGRO/LHEA, GSFC, NASA), A. Treves (U. Como, Dept. of Physics), W. Wamsteker (ESA IUE Obs.)
99.05 EGRET Blazars Identified by 1.4 GHz Polarization
A. L. Iler (U. Massachusetts), J. F. Schachter, M. Birkinshaw (SAO)
99.06 EGRET Observations of High Energy Gamma-ray Emission from Blazars
R. Mukherjee, J. A. Esposito, P. Sreekumar (USRA, NASA/GSFC), D. L. Bertsch, C. E. Fichtel, R. C. Hartman, S. D. Hunter, D. J. Thompson (NASA/GSFC), S. D. Bloom (NRC, NASA/GSFC), L. M. McDonald (HSTX, NASA/GSFC), B. L. Dingus (Univ. of Utah), Y. C. Lin, P. F. Michelson, P. L. Nolan (Stanford Univ.), G. Kanbach, H. A. Mayer-Hasselwander, M. Pohl, A. Mücke (MPE, Garching), C. von Montigny (LSW Koenigstuhl, Heidelberg), D. A. Kniffen (Hampden-Sydney College), E. J. Schneid (Northrop Grumman Corp.)

Session 100. Accretion Disks and Black Holes

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

100.01 Formation of Quasar Black Holes by Magnetic Fields
A. V. Mangalam (U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
100.02 The Structure and Spectrum of Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei
M. W. Sincell (U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), J. H. Krolik (JHU)
100.03 Polarization Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei
P. J. Wiita, G. Bao, Y. Xiong (GSU), P. Hadrava (Czech Astr. Inst.)
Paper 100.03 will be presented in Session 11.
100.04 Compton Scattering of Polarized Radiation in Two-phase Accretion Disks: Feautrier Method
C. Hsu, O. M. Blaes (UCSB Physics)
100.05 Resonant Tidal Disruption in Galactic Nuclei
K. P. Rauch, B. Ingalls (CITA)
100.06 Is there a Supermassive Black Hole in M87?
D. Axon, D. Macchetto (STScI), A. Capetti (S.I.S.S.A. Italy), A. Marconi, W. Sparks (STScI), P. Crane (ESO, FRG)

Session 101. X-rays and X-ray Bursts

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

101.01 Burst ArcSecond Imaging and Spectroscopy (BASIS): A Gamma-Ray Burst Mission Concept
N. Gehrels, B. Teegarden, L. Barbier, T. Cline, A. Parsons, J. Tueller (NASA/GSFC), S. Barthelmy, D. Palmer (USRA/GSFC), J. Krizmanic (NRC/GSFC), E. Fenimore (LANL), G. Fishman (NASA/MSFC), C. Kouveliotou (USRA/MSFC), K. Hurley (UC Berkeley), W. Paciesas (UA Huntsville), J. van Paradijs (UA Huntsville and U Amsterdam), S. Woosley (UC Santa Cruz), M. Leventhal (U Maryland), D. McCammon, W. Sanders (U Wisconsin), B. Schaefer (Yale)
101.02 Verifying the Accuracy of the 3rd Interplanetary Network with the Bursting Pulsar GRO J1744-28
K. Hurley (UCB, SSL), C. Kouveliotou, G. Fishman, C. Meegan, M. Briggs, J. van Paradijs (NASA/MSFC), T. Cline (NASA/GSFC), J. Kommers, W. Lewin (MIT), M. Boer, M. Niel (CESR)
101.03 VLA Searches for the Radio Counterparts of Gamma-ray Bursters
D. A. Frail (NRAO), S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech), C. O. Heinke (Carleton College), C. Carpenter (Harvard), Beppo-SAX GRB Team
101.04 The Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts measured at MeV Energies by CGRO-COMPTEL
A. Connors, M. McConnell, J. M. Ryan (U. New Hampshire), R. M. Kippen (U. Alabama at Huntsville), K. Bennett, F. Pelaez, O. R. Williams, C. Winkler (Astrophysics Div., ESTEC, Netherlands), W. Collmar, J. Greiner, V. Schönfelder, M. Varendorff (MPI fur Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, FRG), W. Hermsen, L. Kuiper (SRON-Utrecht, Netherlands)
101.05 Observational Links Between Gamma-Ray Bursts and Galaxies
S. B. Larson, I. S. McLean, E. E. Becklin (UCLA)
101.06 Latest Results from BATSE on the Isotropy of Gamma-Ray Bursts
C. A. Meegan (NASA/MSFC), M. Briggs (UAH), J. Hakkila (Mankato State Univ.)
101.07 The EGRET Catalog of High Energy Gamma Ray Sources from CGRO Phases 1, 2, 3, and Cycle 4
R. C. Hartman, D. L. Bertsch, C. E. Fichtel, S. D. Hunter, D. J. Thompson (NASA/GSFC), B. L. Dingus, R. Mukherjee, P. Sreekumar (GSFC/USRA), S. Bloom (GSFC/NAS/NRC), Y. C. Lin, P. F. Michelson, P. L. Nolan (Stanford), G. Kanbach, H. R. Mayer-Hasselwander (MPE), D. A. Kniffen (Hampden-Sydney), E. J. Schneid (Northrup-Grumman), C. von Montigny (Heidelberg)
101.08 A Map of the Gamma-Ray Sky at 2.223 MeV
M. L. McConnell, J. Ryan (UNH), S. Fletcher (LANL), R. Diehl, V. Schönfelder (MPE), H. Bloemen, W. Hermsen (SRON - Utrecht), K. Bennett, R. van Dijk (SSD-ESA)
101.09 GRIS Measurement of the Cosmic Diffuse Background Spectrum
S. D. Barthelmy, J. E. Naya (NASA-GSFC (USRA)), N. Gehrels, A. Parsons, B. Teegarden, J. Tueller (NASA-GSFC), L. M. Bartlett (NASA-GSFC (NAS-NRC)), M. Leventhal (U. of Maryland)
101.10 Gamma-ray Background in the GRATIS Balloon-borne Payload
J. W. Keck, W. W. Craig, C. J. Hailey, J. Hong, S. M. Kahn, R. McLean, M. J. Pivovaroff (Columbia Univ.), G. Sprehn, R. E. Wurtz, K. P. Ziock (LLNL), G. J. Jernigan (UC Berkeley), F. A. Harrison (UC Caltech), P. M. Lubin, M. Seiffert (UCSB)
101.11 The Contribution of ONeMg Novae to the ^26Al Production in the Galaxy
U. Kolb (U. Leicester), M. Politano (ASU)

Session 102. Clusters of Galaxies

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

102.01 The Dynamics of A2256
R. C. Berrington, P. M. Lugger, H. N. Cohn, G. A. Drukier, B. W. Murphy (Indiana U.)
102.02 Bent Double Radio Galaxies from the FIRST Survey as Tracers of High-z Clusters
E. L. Blanton, D. J. Helfand (Columbia U.), R. H. Becker (UC Davis), M. D. Gregg (IGPP/LLNL), R. L. White (STScI)
102.03 The Discovery of a New Class of Compact Galaxy Systems Inside the Coma Cluster.
C. J. Conselice, J. S. Gallagher III (U. Wisconsin, Madison)
102.04 Sub-Structure Survival in Galaxy Clusters from N-Body Experiments
R. J. Splinter (U. Kentucky), A. L. Melott (U. Kansas)
102.05 The Intrinsic Precision in the D_n-\sigma Relation and Evidence for Substructure in the Coma Cluster
M. J. Pierce, R. Tripoli (Indiana Univ.)
102.06 Using Fundamental Plane Distances to Estimate the Total Binding Mass in Abell 2626
J. J. Mohr (U. Michigan), G. Wegner (Dartmouth Coll.)

Session 103. Galaxy Evolution

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

103.01 A Statistical Analysis of RC3 Galaxies
G. B. Purcell (U. Alabama)
103.02 Galaxy Morphology at High Redshift
S. C. Odewahn, R. A. Windhorst (Arizona State U.), S. P. Driver (U. New South Wales), W. C. Keel (U. Alabama)
103.03 Morphological Peculiarity Indices for Distant and Local Galaxies
K. L. Wu (UCSC), S. M. Faber (UCO/Lick), T. R. Lauer (KPNO/NOAO)
103.04 The Luminosity Function of Field Galaxies in the CNOC Redshift Surveys
H. Lin, H. K. C. Yee, R. G. Carlberg (U. Toronto), E. Ellingson (U. Colorado)
103.05 Keck Spectroscopy of z\sim3 Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field
J. D. Lowenthal, D. C. Koo, R. Guzmán, J. Gallego, A. C. Phillips (UCO/Lick Obs. and Board of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz)
103.06 Near Infrared Observations of the Hubble Deep Field
P. Eisenhardt (JPL/Caltech), M. Dickinson (STScI), S. A. Stanford (IGPP/LLNL), R. Elston (U. Florida), M. Bershady (Penn State)
103.07 The Evolution of Faint Field Galaxies: Implications from the Hubble Deep Field
C. Gronwall (Wesleyan Univ.)
103.08 Compact Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field
A. C. Phillips, R. Guzman, J. Gallego, J. D. Lowenthal, N. P. Vogt, D. Koo, S. Faber, G. Illingworth (Lick Obs./UCSC)
103.09 Formation and Evolution of Spheroidal Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field.
F. Marleau, T. Broadhurst (UCB)
103.10 Optical Rotation Curves of Distant Field Galaxies : Kinematics and Evolution out to z \sim 1
N. P. Vogt, A. C. Phillips, S. M. Faber, G. D. Illingworth, D. C. Koo (UCO/Lick Obs.)
103.11 Evolution of the Abundance of Molecular Gas and Dust in Young Massive Galaxies
D. T. Frayer (U. Toronto), R. L. Brown (NRAO)
103.12 The Luminosity Evolution of Cluster E and S0 Galaxies Between a Redshift of 0.5 and the Present
I. Jorgensen (Univ. of Texas at Austin), J. Hjorth (NORDITA, Denmark), M. Franx (Kapteyn Inst., The Netherlands)

Session 104. IGM

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

104.01 MHD with SPH: Application to the High Redshift IGM
J. Murray, J. Wadsley, J. R. Bond (CITA)
104.02 Probing the High Redshift IGM: SPH+P^3MG Simulations of the Lyman-\alpha Forest
J. Wadsley, J. R. Bond (CITA)
104.03 NGC 7421: Surfing the Intracluster Medium?
S. D. Ryder (UNSW), D. S. Davis (MIT-CSR), G. B. Purcell, V. Andersen (U. Alabama)

Session 105. Molecular Cores and Protostars

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

105.01 Classification of Candidate Protostars in Perseus using HIRES Point Source Modeling
J. C. O'Linger, M. Barsony (UCR), D. Ward-Thompson (ROE), P. André (CEN-Saclay)
105.02 Millimeter Emission Line Spectropolarimetry of Evolved Stars and Protostars: A Possible First Detection
J. Glenn, C. K. Walker, J. Bieging (U. Arizona), P. R. Jewell (Joint Ast. Centre)
105.03 A Multi-Transition CO Study of the NGC 7129 Cloud Core
B. Miskolczi, G. Mitchell (Saint Mary's U.), H. Matthews, G. Sandell (JAC)
105.04 Molecular Gas and Dust Extinction in the Globular Filament GF-9
D. R. Ciardi, C. E. Woodward, D. E. Harker (U. Wyoming), D. P. Clemens (Boston U.), R. J. Rudy (Aerospace Corp.)
105.05 First SCUBA submillimetre images of star formation regions and molecular clouds.
G. Sandell, W. Holland, I. Robson, W. Gear, T. Jenness, J. Lightfoot (JAC)
105.06 Orion BN-KL and GL 2136: A Comparison of the Near-Infrared Structural Features.
J. Holbrook (UCSC/Lick Observatory)
105.07 Constraints On the Dust Toward the BN Object Based On Models of the Water-Ice Polarization
D. W. Messinger, W. G. Roberge, D. C. B. Whittet (Rensselaer Poly. Inst.), A. Chrysostomou (U. of Hertfordshire)
105.08 Hot H2CO: Observations of Formaldehyde at 650GHz
A. Wootten, J. Mangum (NRAO), M. Barsony (UC-Riverside)

Session 106. HII Regions and Ultracompact HII Regions

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

106.01 Extinction Corrections and the Decrement of the \ionHeI lines in the Orion Nebula
P. G. Martin (CITA), R. H. Rubin (NASA/Ames), G. J. Ferland (Kentucky), R. J. Dufour, C. R. O'Dell (Rice), J. A. Baldwin (CTIO), J. J. Hester (Arizona State), D. K. Walter (S.Carolina State)
106.02 H II Region Fluxes and Diameters at 4.85 GHz
T. A. Kuchar, F. O. Clark (Phillips Laboratory/GPOB)
106.03 Observation of a Shocked Gas Shell Surrounding a Compact HII Region
J. D. Bloomer, D. M. Watson, J. L. Pipher, W. J. Forrest (U. Rochester), M. Greenhouse, H. Smith, S. Satyapal (NASM), J. Fischer (NRL), C. E. Woodward (U. Wyoming)
106.04 A High Resolution VLA Study of M17-UC1
C. O. Johnson (Vassar College), C. G. DePree (Agnes Scott College), W. M. Goss (NRAO)
106.05 Detection of 7mm Sources Near Cometary HII Regions
P. Carral (Depto. de Astronomia, U. de Gto.), S. Kurtz, L. F. Rodriguez (IA-UNAM), C. DePree (Agnes Scott College), P. Hofner (NAIC Arecibo)
106.06 Direct Observations of the Ionizing Star of the UC HII Region G29.96-0.02: A Strong Constraint on the Stellar Birth Line for Massive Stars
A. M. Watson (NMSU), A. L. Coil (Princeton U.), D. S. Shepherd (Caltech), P. Hofner (NAIC), E. B. Churchwell (U. Wisconsin - Madison)
106.07 Long-slit mid-infrared spectroscopy of PAH emission in the Orion Bar
G. C. Sloan (NASA Ames), T. L. Hayward (Cornell), J. D. Bregman (NASA Ames), L. J. Allamandola (NASA Ames)

Session 107. Radio Astronomy and VLBI Instruments

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Metropolitan Ballroom

107.01 Recent Advances in Low-Radio-Frequency Wide-Field Imaging
D. S. Briggs, N. E. Kassim, R. S. Foster (NRL)
107.02 Automating Radio Astronomy in the NASA Deep Space Network
T. B. H. Kuiper, J. G. Leflang (Caltech-JPL), T. Trinh (UTA)
107.03 The Morehead Radio Telescope: Design and Fabrication of a Research Instrument for Undergraduate Faculty and Student Research in Radio Frequency Astrophysics
B. K. Malphrus (Morehead State Univ.)
107.04 A New Method to Cancel RFI---The Adaptive Filter
R. Bradley (NRAO), C. Barnbaum (STScI)
107.05 A Near Real-Time Test Correlator for the VSOP Space VLBI Mission
F. Crawford, I. M. Avruch, D. B. Haarsma, B. F. Burke (MIT), G. I. Langston (NRAO)
107.06 Ionospheric Corrections in Radio Astronomy using GPS Data
W. C. Erickson (U. Md.), R. A. Perley (NRAO), N. E. Kassim (NRL), J. A. Payne (LANL), C. Flatters (NRAO)
107.07 VLBI Mapping of Candidate Guide Stars and Their Astrometric Reference Sources for the NASA/Stanford Gravity Probe B Mission
R. R. Ransom, N. Bartel, M. F. Bietenholz (York U.), D. E. Lebach, M. I. Ratner, I. I. Shapiro (CfA), J. -F. Lestrade (Obs. de Meudon)
107.08 The Clock Comparator System: Creating a Highly Accurate Timebase for Observational Astronomy
E. Castro, A. Vazquez, D. Goldbrenner (Arecibo Obs.)
107.09 A Maximum Entropy Method for the Ill-Posed Inversion Problem
R. G. Lyon (CESDIS - NASA/GSFC), J. M. Hollis, J. E. Dorband (NASA/GSFC)
107.10 SNAP: Spreadsheet Nebular Analysis Package
M. Komljenovic, C. Krawchuk, M. McCall, R. Kingsburgh (York Univ.), M. Richer (DAEC), C. Stevenson (Memorial Univ.)

Session 108. Cosmology and Distance Indicators

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Frontenac Ballroom

108.01D Metallicity Effects in the Cepheid P-L Relation
A. M. Fry, B. W. Carney (U. North Carolina)
108.02D Measuring Distances Using Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuations
J. B. Jensen, J. L. Tonry, G. A. Luppino (U. Hawaii)
108.03D Cosmological Measurements and Tests from a Sample of High-Redshift Supernovae
A. Kim, S. Deustua, S. Gabi, G. Goldhaber, D. Groom, I. Hook, M. Kim, J. Lee, P. Nugent, C. Pennypacker, S. Perlmutter, I. Small (LBNL/CfPA, Berkeley), A. Goobar (U.Stockholm), R. Pain (IN2P3), R. Ellis, R. McMahon (IoA), B. Boyle, P. Bunclark, D. Carter, M. Irwin (RGO), H. Newberg (FNAL), M. Richmond (Princeton), A. V. Filippenko, T. Matheson (UC Berkeley), K. Glazebrook (AAO), M. Dopita (MSSSO, ANU), W. Couch (UNSW), T. S. C. Project
108.04 A Cepheid Distance to NGC 1365 in the Fornax Cluster and Implications for the Hubble Constant
B. F. Madore (Caltech), W. L. Freedman (OCIW), R. C. Kennicutt (U.Arizona), J. R. Mould (MSSO), L. Ferrarese (STScI), J. B. Gibson (MSSO), J. A. Graham (DTM), M. Han (U.Wisconsin), H. Ford (STScI), J. Hoessel (U.Wisconsin), J. P. Huchra (Harvard,CfA), S. M. Hughes (RGO), G. D. Illingworth (UCSC), R. L. Phelps (OCIW), A. Saha (STScI), S. Sakai, N. Silbermann (JPL), P. B. Stetson (DAO)
108.05 Measuring Cosmic Deceleration and Global Curvature from Observations of Distant Supernovae
B. P. Schmidt (MSSSO), N. B. Suntzeff, M. Phillips, R. Schommer, A. Clocchiatti (CTIO), R. P. Kirshner, P. Garnavich, P. Challis (Harvard), B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), C. Hogan, C. Stubbs, D. Reiss, A. Diercks (UW), A. Filippenko, A. Reiss (Berkeley), C. Smith (Michigan), M. Hamuy (Arizona), R. Gilliland (STScI), J. Tonry (Hawaii)
108.06 The Stromlo Abell Cluster Supernova Search
D. Reiss (U. Washington), L. Germany, B. Schmidt (MSSSO), C. Stubbs (U. Washington)

Session 109. Seyferts

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Piers 4/5

109.01D Recent Results from the Masers in NGC4258: Detection of Nuclear Continuum Emission, and Progress in Deriving a Geometric Distance
J. Herrnstein, L. Greenhill, J. Moran (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), P. Diamond (NRAO), M. Miyoshi (Mizusawa Astrogeodynamics Observatory), N. Nakai, M. Inoue (Nobeyama Radio Observatory)
109.02D Faint AGN/Starburst Nuclei in Galaxies out to z\simeq0.8
V. L. Sarajedini (Steward Obs.)
109.03 Universal Scattering Property of Seyfert Galaxies
C. R. Hall, F. C. Bruhweiler (The Catholic University of America), G. M. Madejski (Goddard/NASA)
109.04 A CCD Study of the Environment of Seyfert Galaxies
M. DeRobertis, K. Hayhoe (York U.), H. K. C. Yee (U. Toronto)
109.05 VLBA + VLA Radio Continuum Imaging of the Parsec-Scale Torus in NGC 1068
J. F. Gallimore (MPE), S. A. Baum, C. P. O'Dea (STScI)
109.06 Kinematics of the Circumnuclear Molecular Gas in NGC 1068
L. J. Tacconi, J. F. Gallimore, E. Schinnerer, R. Genzel (MPE, Garching), D. Downes (IRAM)
109.07 Why Are Dusty Tori in Seyfert Galaxies Mis-Aligned with the Host Galaxy's Disks?
A. L. Kinney (STScI), H. Schmidt (URFGS, Porto Alegre), T. Storchi-Bergmann (URFGS, Porto Alegre), R. R. J. Antonucci (Physics Dept, UCSB)

Session 110. Jobs for Astronomers Outside Academia

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Harbour B

110.01 Anecdotal Information on Non-academic Jobs for Astronomers
M. Henriksen (Univ. of North Dakota)
110.02 Making a Successful Career Transition into Industry
A. Schweitzer (Honeywell Loveland Controls)

Session 111. Massive Black Holes and Dynamics of Galaxy Cores

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Harbour A

111.01 Spectroscopic Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in NGC 4486B
J. Kormendy (IfA), R. Bender (Universitäts-Sternwarte, Munich, Germany), J. Magorrian, S. Tremaine (CITA), A. Dressler (OCIW), K. Gebhardt, D. Richstone (U. Michigan), R. Green, T. Lauer (NOAO), C. Grillmair (JPL)
111.02 A Massive Black Hole in NGC 3377: 3 Integral Models
D. Richstone, K. Gebhardt (U. Michigan), J. Kormendy (IfA), R. Bender (Universitäts-Sternwarte, Munich), J. Magorrian, S. Tremaine (CITA), S. Faber (UCSC), T. Lauer (KPNO)
111.03 A Massive Black Hole in NGC 3379: 3-Integral Models
K. Gebhardt, D. Richstone (U. Michigan), J. Kormendy (U. Hawaii), R. Bender (Universitäts-Sternwarte, Munich), S. Faber (UCSC), T. Lauer (KPNO), J. Magorrian, S. Tremaine (CITA)
111.04 The demography of massive central black holes
J. Magorrian, S. Tremaine (CITA), K. Gebhardt, D. Richstone (U. Michigan), S. Faber (UCO Lick Obs.)
111.05D Evolution of dense rotating star clusters in the cores of early galaxies
J. Girash (CfA)
111.06 The Central Structure of Early Type Galaxies
T. R. Lauer (KPNO/NOAO), S. M. Faber (UCO/Lick), S. Tremaine (CITA), J. Kormendy (IfA), D. Richstone (Michigan)
111.07D A Survey of Central Milky Way Stellar Kinematics at b = -6^\circ
G. P. Tiede (Ohio State U.)

Session 112. Galaxy Surveys

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Harbour C

112.01D The Clustering and Photometric Properties of Faint Galaxies
D. Woods (U. British Columbia)
112.02D A Wide Field CCD Survey for Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
K. O'Neil (U. Oregon)
112.03 New Measurements of Galactic Extinction: Cross Correlation of HI and Faint Galaxy Data
C. Stoughton (Fermilab), R. C. Nichol (U. Chicago), A. Connolly (John Hopkins U.)
112.04 A Narrow-Band IR Survey for H\alpha-Emitting Galaxies at z\ge 1
H. Teplitz, M. Malkan, I. S. McLean (UCLA)
112.05 A Wide-Field K-band Galaxy Survey
J. P. Gardner (NASA/GSFC), R. M. Sharples, C. S. Frenk, C. M. Baugh (U. Durham, UK), B. E. Carrasco (INAOE, Mexico)
112.06 Blue Galaxy Luminosity Functions and Number Counts From A Deep Multicolor CCD Field Survey
C. T. Liu (U. Arizona), R. F. Green (NOAO)

Session 113. Old Worn-Out Stars

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Piers 2/3

113.01 The Flux From the Bursting Pulsar and the Resulting Accretion Torque
M. J. Stark (Univ. of Md. and NASA/GSFC LHEA), A. Baykal (METU, Ankara, Turkey), F. K. Lamb (UIUC)
113.02 Quasi-periodic Oscillations and Constraints on the Neutron Star Mass and Radius in the Low-mass X-ray Binary 4U 0614+091
P. Kaaret, E. Ford, M. Tavani (Columbia U.), D. Barret, P. Bloser, J. Grindlay (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), B. A. Harmon (NASA/MSFC), W. S. Paciesas (U. Alabama), S. N. Zhang (USRA/MSFC)
113.03 On the Dramatic Spin-up/Spin-Down Torque Transitions in BATSE Observations of X-ray Pulsars
R. Nelson, D. T. Koh, T. Prince, B. Vaughan (Caltech), L. Bildsten (Berkeley), D. Chakrabarty (MIT), M. Finger, B. Rubin, R. Wilson (NASA MSFC)
113.04 Observations of the X-Ray Cyclotron Line Centroid of Her X-1
D. E. Gruber, P. R. Blanco, W. A. Heindl, D. A. Marsden, R. E. Rothschild (UCSD), J. H. Swank, K. Jahoda (NASA/GSFC), M. Kunz, R. Staubert (AIT/Tübingen), D. M. Scott (NASA/MSFC)
113.05 High Frequency Oscillations During Type I Bursts: Evidence for Millisecond Rotators in LMXB
T. Strohmayer, B. Giles (LHEA/USRA), K. Jahoda (LHEA/GSFC), U. Lee (Tohoku University, Sendai)
113.06D The interaction of a stellar magnetic field with a turbulent accretion disk
A. Bardou (Strasbourg)
113.07 Cooling Neutron Stars in Young Supernova Remnants
G. Vasisht, S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech)
113.08 Spin-Down of an Oblique Rotator
A. Melatos (Caltech)

Session 114. Warner Prize Lecture

Oral, Thursday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Frontenac Ballroom

114.01 Star Formation in Molecular Clouds and the Initial Mass Function
F. C. Adams (U. Michigan)

Session 115. Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Frontenac Ballroom

115.01D Comparing Galaxies and Ly\alpha Absorbers at Low Redshift
S. M. Linder (Penn State)
115.02D A Complete Sample of Galaxy Pairs
T. E. Nordgren (Cornell U.), J. N. Chengalur (GMRT), E. E. Salpeter, Y. Terzian (Cornell U.)
115.03 The Effects of Galaxy Cluster Mergers on Cluster Cooling Flows
P. L. Gomez, C. Loken, J. O. Burns (NMSU), K. Roettiger (NASA/GSFC)
115.04 The number counts and X-ray luminosities of WARPS galaxy clusters
C. A. Scharf (UMD/GSFC), L. R. Jones (U. Birmingham, UK), H. Ebeling (IfA, Hawaii), E. Perlman (STScI), M. Malkan (UCLA), G. Wegner (Dartmouth), D. Horner (UMD)
115.05 The Sunyaev--Zel'dovich Effect Imaged in Galaxy Clusters
L. Grego (Caltech), J. Carlstrom (U. Chicago), M. Joy (NASA MSFC), W. Holzapfel (U. Chicago)

Session 116. Large Scale Structure

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Piers 4/5

116.01D A New Measurement of CMB Anisotropy on 7^\prime-20^\prime Scales
E. M. Leitch (Caltech), S. T. Myers (U. Penn.), A. C. S. Readhead, T. J. Pearson (Caltech)
116.02 Detection of a Network Topology in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey
C. Yess, S. F. Shandarin (U. Kansas)
116.03 The Peculiar Velocity Function of Galaxy Clusters
N. A. Bahcall, S. P. Oh (Princeton U.)
116.04 The Pairwise Velocity Dispersion of Galaxies in the Century Survey
R. O. Marzke (DAO), M. J. Geller, D. Fabricant, M. Kurtz, E. Falco, J. P. Huchra (Harvard University), J. Thorstensen, G. Wegner (Dartmouth)
116.05 A Joint Analysis of the COBE FIRAS and DMR CMB Anisotropy Data
G. Hinshaw, D. Fixsen, C. L. Bennett, J. C. Mather (NASA GSFC)
116.06 Very Large-Scale Structure Using QSO Absorption Line Systems
D. E. Vanden Berk, J. M. Quashnock, D. G. York (U. Chicago)
116.07 Clustering of QSO Absorbers, and its Evolution, on Megaparsec Scales
D. G. York, D. E. Vanden Berk, J. M. Quashnock (U. Chicago)

Session 117. Galactic ISM

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Harbour B

117.01 Probing the ISM Structure with Radioactive ^26Al
W. Chen (UMD/GSFC), J. Naya (USRA/GSFC), N. Gehrels, J. Tueller (GSFC), D. Hartmann (Clemson)
117.02 Superbubbles as Magnetic Phenomena
B. D. Frei, R. N. Henriksen, J. A. Irwin, D. L. Giguere (Queen's U.)
117.03 High Velocity Rain: The Galaxy and QSO Absorption Line Systems
R. A. Benjamin (Univ. of Minn./Minn. Supercomputer Inst.)
117.04 Infrared Identification of Cold Molecular Regions
S. J. Carey, F. O. Clark (Phillips Lab/GPOB)
117.05 Nonlinear Optical Processes Occurring in Thin H_2 Clouds Located near Bright Stars
P. P. Sorokin, J. H. Glownia (IBM Research Division)
117.06D Radio Scintillation Due to Discontinuities in the Interstellar Plasma Density
H. Lambert, B. Rickett (U. California San Diego)
117.07D Simulations of Supernova Remnants in the Halo of the Milky Way
R. L. Shelton (NASA/GSFC), D. P. Cox (U. Wisconsin -- Madison)

Session 118. Radiogalaxies

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Harbour A

118.01D Numerical and Analytical Investigations of Radio Jet Stability
J. S. Hooda (GSU)
Paper 118.01D will be presented in Session 31.
118.02D A VLA Study of the Jets in the Radio Galaxy 3C 353.
M. R. Swain (Cornell U.), A. H. Bridle (NRAO), S. Baum (STScI)
118.03D Imaging Polarimetry of High Redshift Radio Galaxies
G. P. Knopp, K. C. Chambers (U. Hawaii)
118.04 The Nuclear Ionized Gas in the Nearby Radio Galaxy NGC 4374
G. A. Bower (NOAO/KPNO), T. M. Heckman (JHU), A. S. Wilson (U. Maryland), D. O. Richstone (U. Michigan)
118.05 The Parsec-scale Jet and Counterjet in Cygnus A
B. Sorathia, N. Bartel, M. Bietenholz (York U.), C. Carilli (NRAO)
118.06 The MRC/1 Jy Survey and Radio Source Unification
P. McCarthy, S. E. Persson (OCIW), V. K. Kapahi, R. Athreya (NCRA, India), W. van Breugel (IGPP)

Session 119. Active Stars

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Harbour C

119.01 Atmospheric Heating and Quiescent Radio Emission in Active Stars
V. Airapetian (CSC/NASA/GSFC), G. Holman (NASA/GSFC)
119.02 Periodic X-ray Emission from the O7 V star \theta^1 Orionis C
M. Gagné, J. L. Linsky (JILA, U. Colorado and NIST), J. -P. Caillault (U. Georgia), J. R. Stauffer (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
119.03D The Rotational Evolution of Young, Solar-type Stars
S. Barnes (Yale Univ.)
119.04D The challenge of Be observations
F. Primas, D. K. Duncan (U. Chicago), M. Hack, P. Molaro (Astronomical Obs. Trieste)
119.05D Spectroscopic Measurements of Starspot Area and Temperature on Magnetically Active Stars
D. O'Neal (Penn State)
119.06 A Young, Energetic, 63-ms Radio Pulsar Near the Supernova Remnant G290.1-0.8 and the \gamma-ray Source 2EG J1103-6106
V. M. Kaspi (Caltech)