Session 83. Compact Objects

Display, Wednesday, January 10, 2001, 9:30am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

83.01 Procyon B: Inside the Iron Box or Not?

J. L. Provencal, H. L. Shipman (University of Delaware), D. Koester (Institut fur Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik Germany), F. Wesemael, P. Bergeron (Universite de Montreal Canada)

83.02 Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Observations of Hot Subdwarf and White Dwarf Stars.

P. Chayer (JHU/UVIC), J.W. Kruk (JHU), FUSE Science Team

83.03 FUSE Observations of the Magnetic White Dwarf EUVE J0317-855

S. Vennes, L. Ferrario, D.T. Wickramasinghe, K. Manson, D.J. Christian (ANU)

83.04 STIS Observations of the Photospheric Stratification of Heavy Elements in Hot DA White Dwarfs

J.B. Holberg (LPL, Univ. of Arizona), M.A. Barstow (Univ. of Leicester), F.C. Bruhweiler (Catholic Univ. of America), I. Hubeny (LASP, Goddard Space Flight Center)

83.05 CHANDRA/LETG Observation of the White Dwarf GD 246

J. Dupuis (UCB), S. Vennes (ANU), P. Chayer (UVIC/JHU)

83.06 Constraints on Nuclear Physics from White Dwarf Seismology

T. S. Metcalfe (University of Texas-Austin)

83.07 Relativistic Precession in Binary Pulsar B1913+16: Mapping the Beam in Two Dimensions

J.M. Weisberg (Carleton College Physics & Astron. Dept.), J.H. Taylor (Princeton U. Physics Dept.)

83.08 MHD Stability of Polar Caps of Accreting Neutron Stars

C. Litwin, E.F. Brown, R. Rosner (University of Chicago)

83.09 Faint Scattering Around Pulsars: High-Q Features in Dynamic Spectra

J. E. Espinoza Goodman, K. M. Becker (Oberlin), J. M. Cordes (Cornell), M. A. Kramer (Oberlin), M. A. McLaughlin (Cornell), J. L. Sheckard (CfA), T. C. T. Smith, D. R. Stinebring (Oberlin)

83.10 PSR J1740-3052: a Radio Pulsar with a Massive Companion

I. H. Stairs (NRAO Green Bank), R. N. Manchester (Australia Telescope National Facility), A. G. Lyne (Jodrell Bank Observatory), V. M. Kaspi (Physics Dept., McGill University), F. Camilo (Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University), J. F. Bell (Australia Telescope National Facility), N. D'Amico (Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna), F. Crawford (Center for Space Research, MIT), D. J. Morris (Jodrell Bank Observatory), A. Possenti (Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna), N. P. F. McKay (Jodrell Bank Observatory), S. L. Lumsden (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds), L. E. Tacconi-Garman (MPE Garching), R. D. Cannon (Anglo-Australian Observatory), N. Hambly (Royal Observatory Edinburgh), P. W. Wood (Research School of Astronomy and Astrophyics, Australian National University)

83.11 RXTE Monitoring of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars

F. P. Gavriil, V. M. Kaspi (Department of Physics, McGill University), D. Chakrabarty (Department of Physics and Center for Space Research, MIT)

83.12 Chandra Observations of the Young, Energetic Pulsar PSR B1509-58

V. Kaspi (McGill University), M. Pivovaroff (Thermawave Inc.), G. Gaensler (MIT), N. Kawai (RIKEN), J. Arons (UC Berkeley), K. Tamura (RIKEN)

83.13 Intermediate-mass binary pulsars from the Parkes Multibeam Survey

F. Camilo (Columbia University), A. G. Lyne, I. H. Stairs, N. P. F. McKay, D. J. Morris, M. Kramer, G. Hobbs (Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK), R. N. Manchester, J. F. Bell (ATNF, Australia), V. M. Kaspi (McGill University, Canada), N. D'Amico, A. Possenti (Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy), F. Crawford (MIT)

83.14 Relativistic diskoseismology: analytical results for c-- and p--modes

M. Ortega-Rodriguez, A. S. Silbergleit, R. V. Wagoner (Stanford Univ.)

83.15 Propagation of Plasma Modes Around a Kerr Black Hole

A. Broderick, R. D. Blandford (Caltech)

83.16 Determining the Mass of Black Holes in Soft X-Ray Transients

D.M. Gelino, T.E. Harrison, B.J. McNamara (NMSU)

83.17 Spectral and Temporal Signatures of Accreting Black Holes

C.R. Shrader (NASA/GSFC, USRA), L.G. Titarchuk (NASA/GSFC, NRL, GMU)

83.18 Multiwavelength Observations of the Microquasar GRS1915+105 in May-September 1997

R. M. Bandyopadhyay (NRL/NRC), S. E. Eikenberry, B. W. Fierce (Cornell University), P. A. Charles (University of Southampton), T. Shahbaz (IAC), R. M. Wagner (Steward Observatory), S. P. Willner, E. V. Tollestrup (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), K. Matthews, T. W. Murphy (California Institute of Technology)

83.19 VLA Observations of X-ray Transients

M.P. Rupen, R.M. Hjellming (NRAO), A.J. Mioduszewski (Sydney University), V. Dhawan (NRAO)

83.20 A Black Hole in the Superluminal source SAX J1819.3-2525 (V4641 Sgr

J.A. Orosz (Utrecht), E. Kuulkers (SRON), M. van der Klis (Amsterdam), J.E. McClintock, M.R. Garcia (CfA), P.J. Callanan (University College, Cork), R.K. Jain, C.D. Bailyn (Yale), R.A. Remillard (MIT)

83.21 Spectral Evolution of Black Hole Binaries

R. A. Remillard, M. Muno, E. H. Morgan (M.I.T.)

83.22 QPO-Amplitude-Modulated Sidebands around Pulsational Frequency of LMC X-4 and Her X-1: Coupling between Periodic and Aperiodic Variability

D.-S. Moon, S. S. Eikenberry (Department of Astronomy, Cornell University)

83.23 Low Frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from the Black Hole Candidate XTE J1550-564 in the 2-120 keV Energy Range

E. Kalemci, J.A. Tomsick, R. Rothschild (Center for Astrophysics and Space Science, University of California, San Diego)