Session 37. Stellar Mass Black Holes

Display, Thursday, January 13, 2000, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

37.01 The Compact Central Object in Cas A: A Neutron Star with Hot Polar Caps or a Black Hole?

G. G. Pavlov, D. Sanwal (Penn State), V. E. Zavlin, B. Aschenbach (MPE, Garching, Germany)

37.02 X-ray Oscillations at 184 GHz in the Black Hole Candidate 4U1630-47

R. A. Remillard, E. H. Morgan (M.I.T.)

37.03 Implications of Thermal/Non-thermal Comptonization Spectral Fits for GRS 1915+105

T.J. Maccarone, P.S. Coppi (Yale University), R.E. Taam (Northwestern University)

37.04 Physical Parameter Estimation in Black Hole X-Ray Binaries

C.R. Shrader, L.G. Titarchuk (NASA/GSFC)

37.05 RXTE Spectral Analysis of the Black Hole Candidate XTE J1550-564

Y. Yao, S. Zhang (U. Alabama in Huntsville), X. Wu (Beijing Astronomical Obs., Chinese Academy of Science, China. P. R.), X. Zhang (U. Alabama in Huntsville), W. Cui (Center for Space Research, MIT), W. Chen (U. Maryland), G. J. Sobczak (Harvard U.)

37.06 A Cosmic Masquerade: Are Novae Disguised Black Holes?

C. Knez (U. Virginia), F. A. Ringwald (Florida Institute of Technology)

37.07 Gravitational Microlensing Parallax Events: Evidence for Isolated Black Hole Stellar Remnants and White Dwarf MACHOs

D.P. Bennett (Notre Dame), C. Alcock (LLNL), R.A. Allsman (ANUSF), D. Alves (STSCI), T.S. Axelrod (MSSSO), D. Becker (Washington), K.H. Cook (LLNL), A. Crouch (Monash), A.D. Drake (MSSSO), P.C. Fragile (Notre Dame), K.C. Freeman (MSSSO), M. Geha (LLNL), J. Gray (Monash), K. Griest (UCSD), B.R. Johnson (Minnesota), M.J. Lehner (Sheffield), S.L. Marshall (LLNL), B. Messenger (Monash), D. Minniti (P. Universidad Católica), C.A. Nelson (LLNL), B.A. Peterson (MSSSO), P. Popowski (LLNL), J.L. Quinn (Notre Dame), P.J. Quinn (ESO), S.H. Rhie (Notre Dame), P. Stetson (DAOb), C.W. Stubbs (Washington), W. Sutherland (Oxford), S. Thomson (Monash), A.B. Tomaney (Washington), T. Vandehei (UCSD), D. Welch (McMaster)

37.08 Constraining the Parameters of Microlensing Black Hole Candidate MACHO-96-BLG-5

J.L. Quinn (Notre Dame), C. Alcock (LLNL), R.A. Allsman (Supercomputing Facility, ANU), D. Alves (STScI), T.S. Axelrod (MSSSO), D. Becker (Washington), D.P. Bennett (Notre Dame), K.H. Cook (LLNL), A.D. Drake, K.C. Freeman (MSSSO), M. Geha (LLNL), K. Griest (UCSD), M.J. Lehner (Sheffield), S.L. Marshall (LLNL), D. Minniti (P. Universidad Católica), C.A. Nelson (LLNL), B.A. Peterson (MSSSO), P. Popowski (LLNL), P.J. Quinn (ESO), S.H. Rhie (Notre Dame), C.W. Stubbs (Washington), W. Sutherland (Oxford), A.B. Tomaney (Washington), T. Vandehei (UCSD), D. Welch (McMaster Univ.)

37.09 Spectral Analysis of RXTE and ASCA Observations of the Microquasar GRO J1655-40

X.L. Zhang, S.N. Zhang (UAH), H.G. Xu (SJTU/China), X.J. Sun, Y.S. Yao (UAH), W. Cui (MIT), W. Chen (GSFC/UMd)

37.10 X-ray and gamma-ray Observations of the COS-B Field 2CG 075+00

D. Stern (Barnard College, Columbia U.), E. V. Gotthelf (Columbia U.), R. Mukherjee (Barnard College, Columbia U.), M. Tavani (IFCTR-CNR, Italy)