Session 8. Dwarf, Irregular and Starburst Galaxies

Display, Wednesday, January 12, 2000, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

8.01 The HST Snapshot Survey of Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Candidates. I.

P. Seitzer (U Mich), E.K. Grebel (U Wash), A.E. Dolphin (NOAO), D. Geisler (U Concepción), P. Guhathakurta (UCSC), P.W. Hodge (U Wash), I.D. Karachentsev (SAO), V.E. Karachenseva (U Kiev), A. Sarajedini (Wesleyan U)

8.02 The HST Snapshot Survey of Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Candidates. II. Distance to the M81/NGC2403 Complex Via DSph Galaxies Imaged With WFPC2

I.D. Karachentsev (SAO), V.E. Karachentseva (U Kiev), A.E. Dolphin (NOAO), D. Geisler (U Concepción), E.K. Grebel (U Wash), P. Guhathakurta (UCSC), P.W. Hodge (U Wash), A. Sarajedini (Wesleyan U), P. Seitzer (U Mich), M.E. Sharina (SAO)

8.03 The HST Snapshot Survey of Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Candidates. III. Resolved Dwarf Galaxies In and Beyond the Local Group

E.K. Grebel (U Wash), P. Seitzer (U Mich), A.E. Dolphin (NOAO), D. Geisler (U Concepción), P. Guhathakurta (UCSC), P.W. Hodge (U Wash), I.D. Karachentsev (SAO), V.E. Karachentseva (U Kiev), A. Sarajedini (Wesleyan U), M.E. Sharina (SAO)

8.04 The HST Snapshot Survey of Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Candidates IV. Photometry with HSTphot

A.E. Dolphin (NOAO), E.K. Grebel (U Wash), P. Seitzer (U Mich), D. Geisler (U Concepcíon), P. Guhathakurta (UCSC), P.W. Hodge (U Wash), I.D. Karachentsev (SAO), V.E. Karachentseva (U Kiev), A. Sarajedini (Wesleyan U), M.E. Sharina (SAO)

8.05 The HST Snapshot Survey of Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Candidates. V. Using the E/S0 Galaxy Maffei~I as a Background Light Screen to Study Foreground Galactic Dust.

P. Guhathakurta (UCSC), A.E. Dolphin (NOAO), D. Geisler (U Concepción), E.K. Grebel (U Wash), P.W. Hodge (U Wash), I.D. Karachentsev (SAO), V.E. Karachentseva (U Kiev), A. Sarajedini (Wesleyan U), P. Seitzer (U Mich)

8.06 The HST Snapshot Survey of Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Candidates. VI. KK83 and KK256, Two Contrasting Galaxies Beyond the Fringe.

P.W. Hodge (U Wash), A.E. Dolphin (NOAO), D. Geisler (U Concepción), E.K. Grebel (U Wash), P. Guhathakurta (UCSC), I.D. Karachentsev (SAO), V.E. Karachentseva (U Kiev), A. Sarajedini (Wesleyan U), P. Seitzer (U Mich)

8.07 High-resolution HST Imagery of the Ionized Gas in NGC 1569

P.L. Shopbell (UMD), B. Buckalew, R.J. Dufour (Rice U.), D.K. Walter (SCSU)

8.08 HST WFPC2 Images and CFHT Fabry-Perot Optical Spectra of the Starburst Disk and Energetic Superbubble in NGC 3079

G. Cecil (U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill/SOAR Project, NOAO), S. Veilleux (U. of Maryland), A.V. Filippenko (U. of California at Berkeley), J. Bland-Hawthorn (Anglo-Australian Observatory)

8.09 Infrared and Radio Continuum Emission from a Young Super Star Cluster in NGC 5253

J. L. Turner (UCLA), S. C. Beck (Tel Aviv University), V. Gorjian (NASA/JPL), P. T. P. Ho (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

8.10 Star Formation in the Field and Clusters of NGC 5253

C.A. Tremonti (Johns Hopkins), D. Calzetti (STScI), T.M. Heckman (Johns Hopkins), C. Leitherer (STScI)

8.11 Signatures of the Youngest Starbursts: Optically-thick Thermal Bremsstrahlung Radio Sources in Henize 2-10

H.A. Kobulnicky (U. Wisconsin), K.E. Johnson (U. Colorado)

8.12 Recent Star Formation in the Tidally Disturbed System HCG31

K.E. Johnson, P.S. Conti (University of Colorado)

8.13 The Spatial Distribution of HII Regions in Irregular Galaxies

E.W. Roye (Yale University), D.A. Hunter (Lowell Observatory)

8.14 WFPC2 Observations of the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

K. Mighell (KPNO/NOAO), C. Gomez-Martin (University of South Florida)

8.15 On the Star-Formation History of the Large Magellanic Cloud

A.A. Cole (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), T.A. Smecker-Hane (University of California, Irvine), J.S. Gallagher, III (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

8.16 UV Spectral Classification and Opacity in Magellanic Cloud OB Stars: Implications for Modeling Young Starbursts.

M. Smith Neubig, F.C. Bruhweiler, R. Cecil (IACS/CUA), J. Eaton (USNA)

8.17 Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies

H. Junkersfeld (U.Montana, NAIC), J. Eder (NAIC-Arecibo Obs.), J. Schombert (U. Oregon)

8.18 Near Infrared Photometry of Emerging Elliptical Galaxies

B. Rothberg, R. D. Joseph (IfA, U. Hawaii)

8.19 The Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters in a Decaying Tidal Field

M. Mateo, J. S. Arabadjis (University of Michigan Astronomy Department)