HEAD 2000, November 2000
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Session 2. Active Galaxies

Display, Monday, November 6, 2000, 8:00am-6:00pm, Bora Bora Ballroom

2.01 An upper limit on the AGN BH Mass given by the Warm Absorber
R. Morales, A.C. Fabian, D.R. Ballantyne (Institute of Astronomy)
2.02 A deep ASCA observation of the Ultra-luminosity Infra-red galaxy Mrk 231
C.S. Reynolds (JILA, University of Colorado), P.R. Maloney (CASA, University of Colorado)
2.03 XMM-Newton Observation of the Complex Absorbing Medium in IRAS 13349+2438
M. Sako (Columbia), M. Audard (PSI), E. Behar (Columbia), A. J. den Boggende (SRON), Th. Boller (MPE), G. Branduardi-Raymont (MSSL), A. C. Brinkman (SRON), J. Cottam (Columbia), C. Erd (ESTEC), C. Ferringo (SRON), M. Guedel (PSI), J. W. den Herder (SRON), J. S. Kaastra (SRON), S. M. Kahn (Columbia), A. Lagostina (SOC), R. Mewe (SRON), F. B. S. Paerels (Columbia), J. R. Peterson (Columbia), M. Pierre (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA), E. M. Puchnarewicz (MSSL), A. P. Rasmussen (Columbia), T. Tamura (SRON), I. Sakelliou (MSSL), K. Thomsen (SRON), C. de Vries (SRON)
2.04 Lifting the Shroud Around Broad Absorption Line QSOs: A Chandra Survey
T. Aldcroft, P.J. Green, B.J. Wilkes, M. Elvis (SAO), S. Mathur (OSU)
2.05 Strong X-ray absorption in the quasar RXJ1028.6-0844 at redshift 4.28
W. Yuan, M. Matsuoka, S. Ueno (NASDA, Japan)
2.06 Further Limits on MeV Emission from Active Galaxies Measured with COMPTEL
J. G. Stacy (LSU & SU), S. C. Kappadath (LSU), W. Collmar, V. Schönfelder, H. Steinle, A. W. Strong (MPE), H. Bloemen, W. Hersmen (SRON-Utrecht), J. M. Ryan (UNH), O. R. Williams (ESA/ESTEC)
2.07 X-Ray Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei in the Lockman Hole
D. Chakrabarty, J.C. Lee, D. Psaltis, D.S. Wong (MIT)
2.08 Non-linear light curves and perturbations in spherical accretion onto black holes
R. Sivron (Bucknell University), A.K. Woodson (Truman State University)
2.09 A Large, Uniform Sample of X-ray Emitting AGN: the First 102.5 IDs from the ROSAT All Sky and Sloan Digital Sky Surveys
B. Margon, S. F. Anderson, P. Szkody (Univ. Washington), W. Voges, J. Trümper, Th. Boller (MPE), J. Annis (FNAL), R. C. Nichol (CMU), N. A. Bahcall, J. E. Gunn, R. S. J. Kim, M. A. Strauss (Princeton), F. J. Castander (Obs. Midi-Pyr), J. Brinkmann (APO), SDSS Collaboration
2.10 Chandra Detects X-ray Emission from Sgr~A*
F. K. Baganoff, M. W. Bautz, W. Cui, J. P. Doty, G. R. Ricker (MIT), W. N. Brandt, E. D. Feigelson, G. P. Garmire, Y. Maeda, L. K. Townsley (PSU), M. Morris (UCLA), S. H. Pravdo (JPL)
2.11 Development of the Exceptional Radio Source Hercules A (3C 348)
A. C. Sadun (University of Colorado at Denver), P. Morrison (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2.12 Updated Measurements of Fluctuations in the Hard X-ray Background with RXTE
D. R. MacDonald (JPL), D. E. Gruber (UCSD)
2.13 The Central Engines of Liners Dissected by Chandra
M. Eracleous (Penn State U.), J. C. Shields (Ohio U.), E. C. Moran (U. C. Berkeley), J. P. Halpern (Columbia U.)
2.14 Constraining accretion models for nearby supermassive black holes
T. Di Matteo (Harvard), R.M. Johnstone, S.W. Allen, A.C. Fabian, K Iwasawa (IoA, Cambridge, UK)
2.15 Formation of Vortices in Accretion Disks by Rossby Wave Instability
H. Li, S.A. Colgate (LANL), R.V.E. Lovelace (Cornell)
2.16 Relativistic Effects of Moving Clouds near the Central Engines of Active Galactic Nuclei on the Spectrum
R. Sivron (Bucknell University), S. Tsuruta (Montana State University)
2.17 Ionised Iron Lines in X-ray Reflection Spectra
D.R. Ballantyne (IoA), R.R. Ross (IoA & College of the Holy Cross), A.C. Fabian (IoA)
2.18 Deep ASCA Observation of the Broad Absorption Line Quasar PHL 5200
S. Mathur, P. Romano (OSU), P. Green, M. Elvis (CfA), K.P. Singh (TIFR)
2.19 Summary of all Centaurus A Observations with CGRO COMPTEL
H. Steinle, W. Collmar, V. Schönfelder (MPE), K. Bennett (ESTEC/SSD), W. Hermsen (SRON), Jim Ryan (UNH)
2.20 Chandra Detection of X-ray Absorption Associated with a Damped Ly-alpha Absorption System
J. Bechtold (University of Arizona), A. Siemiginowska (CXC, CFA), M. Elvis (CXC, CFA), T. L. Aldcroft (CXC, CFA), A. Dobrzycki (CXC, CFA)
2.21 The Variable Intrinsic Absorption of Mkn~421 Detected by Chandra
F. Nicastro, M. Elvis, A. Fruscione (Smithsonian Astophysical Observatory)


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