Session 98. Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs

Display, Saturday, January 9, 1999, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

98.01 OPAL Equation of State for Low Mass Stars

F. J. Rogers (LLNL), A. Nayfonov (Univ.Southern California and IGPP, LLNL)

98.02 Searching for Low Mass Stars in STIS parallels

P. Plait (NASA's GSFC)

98.03 Progress Report on the Search for the Elusive Methane (T-type) Field Brown Dwarf

A. J. Burgasser, J. D. Kirkpatrick, N. Reid (Caltech/IPAC), J. E. Gizis, M. F. Skrutskie (UMASS), D. G. Monet, H. Harris, C. C. Dahn (USNO, Flagstaff), J. W. Liebert (U. Arizona)

98.04 L-band Spectra of Brown Dwarf Candidates and Very Low Mass Stars

K.S. Noll (STScI), T.R. Geballe (Gemini), S.K. Leggett (JACH), M. Marley (NMSU), T. J. Henry (CfA)

98.05 Spectroscopy of L- and M- Dwarfs

S. K. Leggett (JAC Hilo Hawaii), F. A. Allard (CRAL, ENS, Lyon France), C. C. Dahn (USNO Flagstaff Station), P. H. Hauschildt (U. Georgia), J. Rayner (NASA IRTF, Honolulu Hawaii)

98.06 A Photometric Search for Planets in Open Clusters

A. Quirrenbach, J. Cooke, D. Mitchell, J. Willis (UCSD), EXPORT Team

98.07 2MASS Brown Dwarfs in the Hyades Cluster

J. E. Gizis (U. Mass.), D.G. Monet (USNO Flagstaff)

98.08 A NICMOS Search for Very-Low-Mass Companions to Stars within 10 pc

D. A. Golimowski (JHU), T. J. Henry (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. E. Krist, C. J. Burrows (STScI), H. C. Ford (JHU), D. W. McCarthy (U. Arizona), D. J. Schroeder (Beloit College)

98.09 NASA's Nearby Stars Project

T. J. Henry (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), D. E. Backman (Franklin \& Marshall College), R. Christensen, K. Moller, E. Vacin, S. West (NASA Ames)

98.10 Planet Formation by Parker Instability

Wenchien Chou, Toshiki Tajima, Koichi Noguchi (U. Texas), Kazunari Shibata (NAOJ)