Session 3. Dwarf Stars

Display, Monday, June 5, 2000, 9:20am-6:30pm, Empire Hall South

3.01 An infrared spectral sequence into the brown dwarf regime

H.R.A. Jones (LJMU)

3.02 Chromospheres At and Below the Hydrogen Burning Limit

J.E. Gizis, J.D. Kirkpatrick (IPAC/Caltech), I.N. Reid (U. Penn), D.G. Monet (USNO/Flagstaff), J. Liebert (U. Arizona)

3.03 A Possible Brown Dwarf Companion to the Hyades Eclipsing Binary V471 Tauri

E.F. Guinan (Villanova University), I. Ribas (U. de Barcelona), J.J. Bochanski, G.P. McCook (Villanova University)

3.04 STIS Spectroscopy of Candidate Substellar Companions Imaged by NICMOS

G. Schneider (Steward Obs., U. of Arizona), NICMOS IDT/EONS Team, STIS/8176 Team

3.05 Discovering the ``Missing Link": Early Methane Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

D. A. Golimowski (JHU), X. Fan (Princeton), T. R. Geballe (NOAO/Gemini), J. E. Gunn (Princeton), T. J. Henry (JHU), G. R. Knapp (Princeton), S. K. Leggett (JACH/UKIRT), R. H. Lupton, A. McDaniel (Princeton), E. Peng (JHU), D. P. Schneider (Penn State), M. A. Strauss (Princeton), Z. I. Tsvetanov, A. Uomoto, W. Zheng (JHU), Sloan Digital Sky Survey Collaboration

3.06 Spectra of Early and Late(r) Methane Dwarfs in the SDSS and 2MASS

T. R. Geballe (Gemini), S. K. Leggett (UKIRT), X. Fan (Princeton), D. P. Schneider (Penn State), G. K. Knapp, A. McDaniel, J. E. Gunn, R. H. Lupton, M. A. Strauss (Princeton), D. A. Golimowski, T. Henry, E. Peng, Z. I. Tsvetanov, A. Uomoto, W. Zheng (JHU), G. J. Hill (Texas), L.W. Ramsey (Penn State)

3.07 A NIR Sequence of Late-M, L and T-dwarfs with CorMASS

J.C. Wilson, J.R. Houck (Cornell University), M.F. Skrutskie (University of Massachusetts), J.E. Gizis (IPAC), D.G. Monet (USNO Flagstaff Station), A.J. Burgasser (Caltech), J.D. Kirkpatrick (IPAC)

3.08 Evaluation of the Astrometric Potential of NIR Focal Plane Arrays for Determination of Parallaxes and Proper Motions of L and T Dwarfs\\

F.J. Vrba (USNOFS), A.A. Henden (USNOFS/USRA), C.B. Luginbuhl, H.H. Guetter, D.G. Monet (USNOFS)

3.09 Optical Spectroscopy of T dwarfs Using LRIS

A. J. Burgasser (Caltech), J. D. Kirkpatrick (IPAC/Caltech), M. E. Brown (Caltech)

3.10 An Efficient Survey for Faint L Dwarfs, T Dwarfs, and z\gtrsim5.5 Quasars

P.B. Hall, M. Gladders (U. Toronto), F. Barrientos (U. Catolica), H. Yee (U. Toronto), M. Sawicki (Caltech)