Session 3. Analysis, Data and Distances

Display, Monday, June 4, 2001, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

3.01 Night-time Brightness of Clouds over a City

R. H. Garstang (University of Colorado)

3.02 Processing and Analysis of CCD Images to Detect Transits of Earth--sized Planets

D. A. Caldwell (NRC/NASA Ames Research Center), J. M. Jenkins (SETI Institute), W. J. Borucki, D. G. Koch (NASA Ames Research Center), Kepler Mission Team

3.03 The Physical Content of the Leading Orders of Principle Component Analysis of Spectral Profiles

A. Skumanich, A. Lopez Ariste (High Alt. Obs-NCAR)

3.04 How Long Does It Take to Get Your HST Data?

S.B. Parsons, R. Arquilla, D. Christian, T.A. Ellis, D. Fraquelli, E. Giovane, F. Hamilton, A. Holm, D. Kenny, M. Kochte, J.F. Scott (CSC/STScI)

3.05 Preliminary Design for a SOFIA Data Archive System

J. Milburn, R. Y. Shuping, M. Morris (Div. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UCLA), S. Lord (Infrared Processing and Analysis Center)

3.06 Data Reconnaissance with MAST's Web-Based Spectral and Imaging ``Scrapbooks"

M. A. Smith, D. J. Christian, C. Imhoff, K. Levay, M. Postman, P. Padovani, R. W. Thompson (Space Telescope Science Institute)

3.07 Second Order Operators in the ADS Abstract Service

G. Eichhorn, A. Accomazzi, C.S. Grant, M.J. Kurtz, S.S. Murray (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

3.08 Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos

A. W. Hirshfeld (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)

3.09 Accurate Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud: Analysis of the Eclipsing Binary LMC EROS 1044

F. P. Maloney, I. Ribas, E. L. Fitzpatrick, E. F. Guinan, L. E. DeWarf, J. E. Castora, J. F. Sepinsky (Villanova)

3.10 A White Dwarf Distance to M5 and the RR Lyrae Luminosity Calibration

T.A. von Hippel (Gemini Observatory), A. Layden (Bowling Green State University), A. Cool (San Francisco State University), A. Sarajedini (University of Florida)