Session 2. Extra-solar Planets: Dwarfs and Disks

Contributed Oral Parallel Session, Chair: C.A. Griffith, K. Noll, Monday, October 11, 1999, 9:00-10:00am, Sala Astrolabio Kursaal

2.01 Brown Dwarf Spectra from 3-4 Microns: Searches for Methane and Other Molecules

K. Noll (STScI), M. Marley (NMSU), R. Freedman (NASA/Ames), S. Leggett (JAC)

2.02 The Chemistry and Dynamics of a Brown Dwarf's Atmosphere

C. A. Griffith, R. V. Yelle (Northern Arizona University)

2.03 The Cloudy Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs: Lessons for Direct Detection of Extrasolar Giant Planets

M.S. Marley (New Mexico State Univ.), R. Freedman (NASA/Ames Research Center), J.I. Lunine (Univ. Ariz.)

2.04 Circumstellar dust disks and extrasolar planets: Far-off\\analogs of our Solar System

D. E. Trilling (UCO/Lick), R. H. Brown, A. S. Rivkin (LPL/Arizona)

2.05 Dust Rings in Gas Disks. A model for HR 4796A

H.H. Klahr, D.N.C. Lin, P. Bodenheimer (UCO/Lick Observatory)

2.06 High-Oxygen Planetary Atmospheres and the Existence of Intelligent Life in the Universe

D.C. Catling (SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center), C.P. McKay (NASA Ames Research Center)