Session 51. Optical Interferometry

Topical Session Oral, Wednesday, June 6, 2001, 8:30am-12:30pm, 2:30-6:00pm, C106

51.01 State of the Interferometry Field

W. A. Traub (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

51.02 Keck Interferometer First Fringes

M. Colavita (JPL)

51.03 VLTI First Fringes and Beyond

M. Schoeller (ESO)

51.04 Science with the CHARA Array

H. McAlister (GSU)

51.05 Nulling and Fizeau Interferometry with the MMT and LBT: Results and Plans

P. Hinz (U. Arizona)

51.06 Observations of T Tauri Stars with Infrared Interferometry

R. Akeson (IPAC/Caltech)

51.07 Optical Interferometry of YSOs: Summary of Herbig Ae/Be Stars Results

R. Millan-Gabet (Harvard-CfA)

51.08 Interferometric Contributions to Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics

D. Sasselov (Harvard-CfA)

51.09 Observations of Circumstellar Material Around Evolved Stars with the ISI

W. Danchi (GSFC), C. Townes (UC Berkeley)

51.10 Stellar Diameter Measurements at the NPOI: From 1.5 to 8.8 mas

T. Nordgren (Lowell Observatry)

51.11 Direct Measurements of Stellar Pulsations on the Cepheid Zeta Gem With PTI

B. Lane (Caltech GPS)

51.12 Searching for Terrestrial Planets: The Road to TPF

C. Beichman (JPL)

51.13 Science with the GI2T

D. Mourard (OCA France)

51.14 The Michelson Interferometry Summer School Program

P.R. Lawson, R. Danner (JPL)

51.15 Nulling Interferometry Progress and Plans

G. Serabyn (JPL)

51.16 Observations of H\alpha in Be stars with the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer

T. A. Pauls, G. C. Gilbreath, J. T. Armstrong, D. Mozurkewich (NRL), J. A. Benson (USNO), R. B. Hindsley (NRL)

51.17 Images of massive young stars MWC 349A and LkHalpha 101

P. G. Tuthill (School of Physics, Sydney University, NSW 2006, Australia.), J. D. Monnier (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), W. C. Danchi (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

51.18 Wide-field Imaging Interferometry

D. Leisawitz (NASA GSFC), X. Zhang (RITSS and NASA GSFC), W. Danchi, D. Leviton, R. Lyon, A. Martino, J. C. Mather (NASA GSFC), L. G. Mundy (U. Maryland)

51.19 Astrometric `Imaging' of Crowded Stellar Fields with Only Two SIM Pointings

N. Dalal, K. Griest (UCSD)

51.20 Narrow and Wide Angle Interferometry with HST's FGS1r

E.P. Nelan, R. Makidon (STScI), G.F. Benedict, Q.B. McArthur (University of Texas at Austin)

51.21 Overview of SIM

M. Shao (JPL)

51.22 The SIM Planet Search Program

G. Marcy (UC Berkeley)

51.23 Stellar and Galactic Astrophysics with SIM

A. Gould (OSU)

51.24 10 Micro-arcsecond Astrometry of Galaxies and AGN/QSOs with SIM

E. Shaya (GSFC)