Session 29. Quasi-Periodic Oscillations and Pulsar Theory

Oral, Wednesday, January 6, 1999, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 9 (C)

29.01 Variable Frequency QPOs from the Galactic Microquasar GRS 1915+105

C. Markwardt (NASA/GSFC/NRC), J. Swank (NASA/GSFC), R. E. Taam (Northwestern U.)

29.02 Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Black Hole Candidates

Wei Cui (MIT), S. N. Zhang (University of Alabama-Huntsville), Wan Chen (GSFC/NASA and University of Maryland), J. H. Swank (GSFC/NASA)

29.03 Absorption Dips and QPOs in the Eccentric Neutron-star Binary Circinus X-1

R. E. Shirey (UC Santa Barbara), H. V. Bradt, A. M. Levine, E. H. Morgan (MIT)

29.04 Relativistic Compton Scattering in Ultra-Strong Magnetic Fields

P. L. Gonthier, M. S. Ouellette (Hope College), C. L. Mercer (Colorado College), A. K. Harding, M. G. Baring (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

29.05 Photon Splitting/Pair Cascades in Ultra-Strong Magnetic Fields

A. K. Harding, M. G. Baring (NASA/GSFC), P. L. Gonthier (Hope College), M. Knecht (University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign)

29.06 Acceleration of plasmas to relativistic energies.

F. C. Michel (Rice University)

29.07 Viscous Stability of Relativistic Keplerian Accretion Disks

P. Ghosh (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

29.08 Irrotational Binary Neutron Stars in Quasi-Equilibrium

G. J. Mathews, P. Marronetti (Univ. of Notre Dame), J. R. Wilson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)