Session 152. Variable Stars

Oral, Thursday, January 10, 2002, 2:00-3:30pm, Jefferson East

152.01 VY Canis Majoris: Observational Studies of the Outflow

M. Harwit (Cornell University)

152.02 Doppler Tomography of Massive Compact Binary Stars in Multiple Star Systems

J. A. Harvin (Georgia State University)

152.03 'Till never do us part: an XRBs fatal dance, from X-rays to gravitational waves

M.S. Sipior, M. Eracleous, S. Sigurdsson (Penn State University)

152.04 Tipping the pulsation axis: A pulsating star in a close binary.

M.D. Reed (Southwest Missouri State University and Iowa State University), Whole Earth Telescope Xcov 17 and 21 Team

152.05 Light History of the Suspected RCB Star ES Aql Restored with the Harvard Photographic Plates

D. Hammond (U. of Delaware & Maria Mitchell Obs.), J. Lawless (Grove City Coll. & Maria Mitchell Obs.)

152.06 CCD Photometry of Tycho Suspected Variable Stars

C. McGough (Georgia Tech and Maria Mitchell Obs.), N. Samus (Inst. of Astron. Russian Ac. Sci., Sternberg Astron. Inst.), F. van Wyk (South African Astron. Obs.)