Session 84. Studying the Anatomy of the Milky Way

Display, Thursday, June 3, 1999, 9:20am-4:00pm, Southwest Exhibit Hall

84.01 Reconstruction of Stellar Orbits Close to Sagittarius A*

P.C. Fragile, G.J. Mathews (Notre Dame)

84.02 Stellar Orbits and Variability in the Central 1"x1" of the Milky Way

A. M. Ghez, M. Morris, E. E. Becklin, A. Tanner (UCLA)

84.03 Observations of the Galactic Center with NICMOS, the AAT, and the VLA: Evidence for the Interaction of Sgr A East and the Circumnuclear Disk

S. R. Stolovy (U. Arizona), F. Yusef-Zadeh (Northwestern University), M. Burton (U. New South Wales), M. Wardle (U. Sydney), G. Rieke (U. Arizona), J. Lazio, N.E. Kassim (NRL), D. A. Roberts (U. Illinois)

84.04 Wide Field Imaging of the Galactic Center at 20cm with the VLA

W. Cotton (NRAO), F. Yusef-Zadeh (Northwestern U.)

84.05 Faint A stars as tracers of the structure of the Galactic Halo

B. Yanny, H. Newberg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), R. H. Becker (University of California, Davis), S. Laurent-Muehleisen (LLNL), J. R. Pier (USNO, Flagstaff), G. Richards (University of Chicago), Sloan Digital Sky Survey Collaboration

84.06 RXTE Observations of the Galactic Bulge

C.B Markwardt (NASA/GSFC/NRC), F.E. Marshall, J.H. Swank (NASA/GSFC), J.J.M. in't Zand (SRON)

84.07 Simulations of the Microlensing Optical Depth toward the Galactic Bar

T. P. Ashenfelter, G. J. Mathews, D. P. Bennett (University of Notre Dame), H.-S. Zhao (Leiden University)

84.08 The BU-FCRAO Milky Way Galactic Ring Survey I. The first two Square Degrees

R. Simon, J.M. Jackson, D.P. Clemens, T.M. Bania, M. Kolpak (BU), M.H. Heyer (UMASS)

84.09 The BU-FCRAO Milky Way Galactic Ring Survey II. Kinematics and Correlation with the Optical and Infrared

M. Kolpak, R. Simon, J.M. Jackson, D.P. Clemens, T.M. Bania (BU), M.H. Heyer (UMASS), M.P. Egan, S.D. Price (AFRL/VSBC)

84.10 A Galactic Plane Survey in ¹³CO

Y. Lee (CfA \& KAO/TRAO), A.A. Stark (CfA \& AST/RO), H.-G. Kim (KAO/TRAO), D.-S. Moon (Cornell U.)

84.11 Automatic Identification, Classification, and Abundance Estimation for Metal-Poor Stars in the Galaxy from Objective-Prism Spectroscopy via Artificial Neural Network Analysis

J. Rhee, T.C. Beers (Michigan State U.), M.J. Irwin (IoA)

84.12 Space Motions For a Large Sample of Non-Kinematically Selected Metal-Poor Stars in the Thick Disk and Halo of the Galaxy

T.C. Beers (Michigan State U.), M. Chiba (NAO, Japan), Y. Yoshii (IOA, Japan), I. Platais (Yale U.), R. Hanson (Lick Obs.), B. Fuchs (Heidelberg U., Germany), R. Williamson II (STScI)

84.13 The Kiso/HK Objective-Prism Survey -- First Results from a Test Field Toward the High Velocity HI Cloud A1

J. Jugaku (Res. Inst. of Civilization, Tokai U., Japan), Y. Kan-ya (NAO, Japan), M.Y. Fujimoto (Hakkaido U., Japan), T.C. Beers (Michigan State U.)

84.14 Metal Abundances in the Magellanic Stream

B.K. Gibson, S.V. Penton, J.T. Stocke (CASA)

84.15 Is the Galaxy Symmetric? -- A Comparison of Starcounts of Faint Blue Stars

R. M. Humphreys, J. E. Parker, B. J. Anderson, J. Webster (University of Minnesota), J. A. Larsen (University of Arizona)