Session 4. The Milky Way Galaxy

Display, Monday, January 8, 2001, 9:30am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

4.01 Adaptive Optics Near Infrared Spectroscopy of the Stars in the SgrA* (IR) Cluster

S. Gezari, A.M. Ghez, E.E. Becklin, J. Larkin, I. McLean, M. Morris (UCLA)

4.02 Chandra Imaging of Sgr A* and the Central Parsec of the Galaxy

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)

4.03 Structure of Sagittarius A* at 86 GHz using VLBI Closure Quantities

S.S. Doeleman (MIT-Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA.), Z.-Q. Shen (National Astronomical Obs., Japan & ASIAA, Taiwan), A.E.E. Rogers (MIT-Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA.), G.C. Bower (NRAO, Socorro, NM.), M.C.H. Wright (U. California Berkeley), J.-H. Zhao (CfA, Cambridge, MA.), D.C. Backer (U. California Berkeley), J.W. Crowley (MIT-Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA.), R.W. Freund (NRAO, Tucson, AZ.), P.T.P. Ho (CfA, Cambridge, MA.), K.Y. Lo (ASIAA, Taiwan), D.P. Woody (Cal. Tech., OVRO, Big Pine, CA.)

4.04 AST/RO Observations of CO J=7-6 Emission from the Galactic Center

S. Kim, C. L. Martin, A. A. Stark, A. P. Lane (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

4.05 Electron-positron Annihilation Radiation from Sgr A East

M. Fatuzzo (Xavier University), F. Melia, J. Rafelski (University of Arizona)

4.06 Parallel Nonthermal Filaments Near the Galactic Center: Spectral Index Variation without Aging?

T.N. LaRosa (Univ. of Wyoming), T.J.W. Lazio, N.E. Kassim (NRL), C.C. Lang (UMASS)

4.07 OVRO High Resolution Imaging of the Dense Molecular Gas in the Central 4 Parsecs of the Galaxy

M.H. Christopher, N.Z. Scoville (Caltech), S.R. Stolovy (IPAC/SIRTF Science Center, Caltech), M.S. Yun (UMass)

4.08 Equilibrium and stability of strong vertical magnetic fields at the Galactic center

Benjamin Chandran (University of Iowa)

4.09 Dynamical Friction near the Galactic Center

S. S. Kim (UCLA, Division of Astronomy)

4.10 Variable Stars At The Galactic Center

D.J. Sand (Caltech), A.M. Ghez (UCLA)

4.11 MSX Galactic Center Deep Field Images

D. R. Mizuno (BC), M. P. Egan (AFRL), S. J. Carey, T. A. Kuchar (BC), S. D. Price (AFRL)

4.12 Emission-line Stars in the Milky Way; A Near Infrared Survey

N. Homeier (U of Wisconsin-Madison), R. Blum (CTIO), P. Conti (U of Colorado), A. Damineli (IAG, University of Sao Paulo)

4.13 A New Look at the Milky Way

R.H. Becker, S. Laurent-Muehleisen (UC-Davis), D.J. Helfand (Columbia), R.L. White (STScI)

4.14 Morphology of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms

T.Y. Steiman-Cameron (Indiana U.), M.G. Wolfire (U. Maryland), D.J. Hollenbach (NASA/Ames Research Center)

4.15 A New Survey for Faint Galactic High-velocity HI Clouds

F.J. Lockman (NRAO), E.M. Murphy (UVa), S.M. Petty-Powell (Evergreen St.), V.J. Urick (Bloomsburg Univ.)

4.16 Results from a Spectroscopic Study of Microlensed Sources towards the Galactic Bulge

K.C. Sahu (STScI), S. Kane (University of Tasmania)

4.17 MACHO Project Analysis of the Galactic Bulge Microlensing Events with Clump Giants as Sources

P. Popowski, K.H. Cook, A.J. Drake, S.L. Marshall, C.A. Nelson (IGPP/LLNL), C. Alcock (UPenn), R.A. Allsman, T.S. Axelrod, K.C. Freeman, B.A. Peterson (ANU), D.R. Alves (STScI), A.C. Becker, C.W. Stubbs, A.B. Tomaney (Washington), D.P. Bennett (Notre Dame), M. Geha (UC Santa Cruz), K. Griest, T. Vandehei (UC San Diego), M.J. Lehner (Sheffield), D. Minniti (Catolica), M.R. Pratt (CSR/MIT), P.J. Quinn (ESO), W. Sutherland (Oxford), D. Welch (McMaster), MACHO Collaboration

4.18 Astrometry with the Macho Data Archive

A.J. Drake, C. Alcock, K.H. Cook, S.L. Marshall, C.A. Nelson, P. Popowski (LLNL), T.S. Axelrod, R.A. Allsman, K.C. Freeman (ANU), M. Geha (UCSC), D. Minniti (UPC), A.C. Becker, C.W. Stubbs (Washington), D.P. Bennett (Notre Dame), D. Alves (STSI), K. Griest, T. Vandehei (UCSD), P.J. Quinn (ESO), W. Sutherland (Oxford), D.L. Welch (McMaster), MACHO Collaboration

4.19 Halo-lensing or Self-lensing? Locating the MACHO Lenses

C.A. Nelson, K.H. Cook, P. Popowski, A.J. Drake, S.L. Marshall (IGPP/LLNL), K. Griest, T. Vandehei (UC San Diego), C. Alcock (UPenn), R.A. Allsman, T.S. Axelrod, K.C. Freeman, B.A. Peterson (ANU), D.R. Alves (STScI), A.C. Becker, C.W. Stubbs, A.B. Tomaney (Washington), D.P. Bennett (Notre Dame), M. Geha (UC Santa Cruz), M.J. Lehner (Sheffield), D. Minniti (Catolica), M.R. Pratt (CSR/MIT), P.J. Quinn (ESO), W. Sutherland (Oxford), D. Welch (McMaster), MACHO Collaboration

4.20 The Nearby Stars (NStars) Program at Appalachian State University, Vatican Observatory, and David Dunlap Observatory

C.J. Corbally (Vatican Obs.), R.O. Gray, M.T. McFadden, P. Robinson (Appalachian State U.), R.F. Garrison (David Dunlap Obs.)

4.21 Luminosity Classification of M Stars using CaH Photometry

T. H. Robertson (Ball State University), A. Scott (DePauw University Physics Program)

4.22 Luminosity Function of Solar Neighborhood OB Stars

C. Reed (Alma College)

4.23 Star Counts in the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey

M. Cooper (KPNO REU and Grinnell College), J. Najita, A. Dey, B.T. Jannuzi (NOAO)

4.24 10,000 Stars: The 2dF Old Stellar Populations Survey

R.F.G. Wyse (JHU), G. Gilmore (IoA, Cambridge), J.E. Norris, K.C. Freeman (MSSSO)

4.25 The QUEST RR Lyrae Survey: Searching for Debris of Ancient\\Galaxies in the Milky Way Halo

A. K. Vivas, R. Zinn (Yale University), QUEST Collaboration

4.26 FAME Radial Velocity Survey

S. Salim, A. Gould (The Ohio State University)