Session 97. Gamma Ray Bursts, SGRs and Black Holes

Oral, Thursday, June 3, 1999, 2:00-3:30pm, Grand Ballroom

97.01 Detection of Prompt Optical Emission from Gamma-ray Burst 990123

R. Kehoe, C. Akerlof, B. Lee, T. McKay, A. Pawl (Univ. of Michigan), S. Marshall (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), R. Balsano, J. Bloch, D. Casperson, S. Fletcher, G. Gisler, J. Hills, R. Miller, W. Priedhorsky, J. Szymanski, J. Wren (Los Alamos National Lab)

97.02 The galactic latitude of two subsets of Gamma-Ray Bursts

G. Pizzichini (TESRE/CNR)

97.03 Swift - Phase A Study of a Gamma Ray Burst MIDEX Mission

N. Gehrels (NASA GSFC), Swift Science Team

97.04 A Refined IPN Position for SGR1806-20

K. Hurley (UCBSSL), T. Cline (NASA GSFC), C. Kouveliotou (USRA at NASA MSFC), E. Mazets (Ioffe Inst.)

97.05 Relativistic Outflows from Advection-dominated Accretion Disks around Black Holes

P. Subramanian, P.A. Becker (George Mason U.)

97.06 General Relativistic Effects and QPOs in X-Ray Binaries

D. Markovic, F. Lamb (U. Illinois)

97.07 Constraints on the Black Hole in NGC 3516 from its Relativistic Iron K-line

K. Nandra (USRA)

97.08 Long-Term Temporal Variability Observed in GRO J1655-40 by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer

R.E. Rothschild, W.A. Heindl (CASS/UCSD), J. Wilms, Ruediger Staubert (IAAT)