Session 27. White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars

Oral, Monday, January 7, 2002, 10:00-11:30am, Jefferson West

27.01 Evidence for White Dwarfs with Strange-Matter Cores

B. O'Gorman, G.J. Mathews, I.-S. Suh, F. Weber ()

27.02 White dwarf observations in young and old star clusters

K.A. Williams (UCSC), M. Bolte (UCO/Lick Obs.), M.T. Ruiz (Univ. de Chile), M.A. Wood (FIT)

27.03 Are ``Z" and ``Atoll" Sources the Same?

M. P. Muno, R. A. Remillard, D. Chakrabarty (MIT )

27.04 Discovery of the Orbital Period of the Bursting and Dipping Source XTE J1710-281

C. B. Markwardt (U. Maryland & NASA GSFC), J. H. Swank, T. E. Strohmayer (NASA GSFC)

27.05 Magnetically Driven Precession of Warped Disks and Variabilities in Accreting neutron stars

D. Lai, A. Shirakawa (Cornell Univ.)

27.06 Atmospheres and Spectra of Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars: Effect of Vacuum Polarization

W.C.G. Ho, D. Lai (Cornell University)

27.07 B-field Determination from Magnetoacoustic Oscillations in kHz QPO Neutron Star Binaries: Theory and Observations

L.G. Titarchuk (George Mason University/SCS/CEOSR; Naval Research Laboratory), C.F. Bradshaw (George Mason University/SCS/CEOSR), K.S. Wood (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

27.08 Recent Results Fitting Chandra Spectra of Neutron Stars with the ATM model

M.D. Stage (MIT Center for Space Research), P.C. Joss (MIT ), Jurek Madej (Warsaw University)