Session 44. Observations and Analysis of Stellar Atmospheres

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

44.01 Sphericaly extended, massively non-LTE models of standard red giant stars

C. I. Short (Florida Atlantic University, Physics Department), Peter Hauschildt (University of Georgia, Department of Physics & Astronomy and Center for Simulational Physics)

44.02 AGB Stellar Convection: Advancements in large-scale 3D numerical simulations using PPMstar

M.L. Jacobs, D.H. Porter, B.V. Merkey, P.R. Woodward (University of Minnesota)

44.03 Unbiased Weights and Error Estimation in Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer

I.B. Mihaylov, J.E. Bjorkman (University of Toledo)

44.04 Asymptotic Giant Branch SiO Maser Properties from Polarimetric Analysis

R. Fourre (University of Colorado at Boulder, CO), P.R. Jewell (NRAO, Greenbank, WV), J. Glenn (University of Colorado at Boulder, CO)

44.05 Submillimeter Wavelength Maps of Vibrationally Excited HCN in IRC+10216

P.D. Gensheimer (Steward-SMTO), J.H. Bieging (Steward Obs.)

44.06 Mu Leo and NGC 6791: A Statistical Appraisal of Metallicities

B. J. Taylor (Brigham Young University)

44.07 Origins, Structure, and Evolution of Magnetic Activity in the Cool Half of the H--R Diagram: Progress Report on a Major HST~STIS Stellar Survey

T.R. Ayres, A. Brown (CASA), S.A. Drake (GSFC), A.K. Dupree (SAO), M. Guedel (Paul Scherrer Institut), E. Guinan (Villanova), G.M. Harper (CASA), C. Jordan (Oxford), J.L. Linsky (JILA), D. Reimers, J.H.M.M. Schmitt (Hamburg), T. Simon (IfA)

44.08 1-1.4 Micron Spectral Atlas of Stars

E.K. Hicks, M.A. Malkan (University of California, Los Angeles), H.I. Teplitz (Goddard Space Flight Center), H. Sugai (Kyoto University), J. Guichard (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica)

44.09 Grains in the Atmospheres of Late Type Stars

D. R. Alexander, J. W. Ferguson (Wichita St. U.), France Allard (Ecole Normale Superieure - Lyon), P. H. Hauschildt (U. Georgia - Athens)

44.10 FUSE Observations of Three Ultra-hot Wolf-Rayet Pre-White Dwarfs

C. Miskey (CUA/IACS/GSFC), F. Bruhweiler (CUA/IACS), J. Gabel (CUA/IACS/GSFC), W. Feibelman (NASA/GSFC), J. Holberg (LPL/Arizona), M. Barstow (Leichester)

44.11 Search for Cometary Volatiles in Young Stellar Objects

S. D. Brittain (University of Notre Dame), M. J. Mumma (Goddard Space Flight Center), T. W. Rettig (University of Notre Dame), N. Dello-Russo, M. DiSanti (Goddard Space Flight Center), K. P. Magee-Sauer (Rowan University)

44.12 High-Resolution J, H and K Band Spectroscopy of the Luminous Blue Variable Candidate in G79.29+0.46

M. Krauss, M. Hanson (University of Cincinnati), R.H.M. Voors (Royal Dutch Meteorological Inst.)

44.13 The Discovery and Evolution of an Unusual Luminous Variable Star (SN 2000ch) in NGC 3432

R. M. Wagner (LBT Obs), F. J. Vrba, A. A. Henden, B. Canzian, C. B. Luginbuhl (USNO-Flagstaff), A. V. Filippenko, W. Li, R. Chornock, A. L. Coil (UCB), G. D. Schmidt, P. S. Smith (Steward Obs), S. G. Starrfield (ASU), S. Klose (Tautenburg Landesternwarte), A. Castro-Tirado, C. Sanchez-Fernandez, J. Gorosabel (Laboratorio des Astrofisica Espacial y Fisica Fundamental), M. Tichy, J. Ticha (Klet Obs)

44.14 The Physical Basis of Luminosity Classification in the Late A, F and early G--type Stars

R.O. Gray (Appalachian State University), P.W. Graham (Appalachian State University), S.R. Hoyt (Appalachian State University)

44.15 The Chromospheres of G-type Ib Supergiants

A. Lobel (SAO), A. K. Dupree (SAO)

44.16 The Chromospheric Activity-Age Relation for M Dwarf Stars

N. M. Silvestri, T. D. Oswalt (Florida Inst. of Tech.), S. L. Hawley (U. of Washington)

44.17 FUSE Observations of Luminous Cool Stars

A. K. Dupree, P. R. Young (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), T. B. Ake (Johns Hopkins University/Comp. Sci. Corp.)

44.18 Neutron-Capture Element Distributions in Metal-Poor Stars: Examination of a New Star with New Atomic Data

C. Sneden (U. Texas), J. J. Cowan (U. Oklahoma), T. C. Beers (Michigan State U.), S. Burles (U. Chicago), G. M. Fuller (U. California San Diego), I. I. Ivans (U. Texas), J. E. Lawler (U. Wisconsin)

44.19 Systematic Line Profile Variation in VV Cephei During Total Eclipse

W. H. Bauer (Wellesley), P. D. Bennett, A. Brown (CASA, U. of Colorado)

44.20 Infrared Spectroscopy of the Red Rectangle

K.H. Hinkle, A. Hedden (NOAO), P. Bernath (Waterloo)

44.21 Preliminary Baade-Wesselink Radii Solutions for Several Dwarf Cepheids

L. R. Schwendiman, M. D. Joner (Brigham Young University), C. D. Laney (South African Astrophysical Observatory)