Session 4. Star-Forming Environments

Display, Monday, January 7, 2002, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

4.01 Star Formation in the Isolated Molecular Cloud NGC 1788 (LDN 1616)

K. Cooksey (CTIO/ Valparaiso U.), D. Hoard, S. Wachter (CTIO/ U. Washington)

4.02 Star Formation in Lynds Dark Clouds

C. J. Chandler (NRAO), J. S. Richer, A. E. Visser (Cavendish Astrophysics, U. Cambridge)

4.03 On the Importance of Small Grains in the Study of Star-Forming Regions

M. Moore, S. D. Doty (Denison University)

4.04 Polarimetry of Star-Forming Clouds and Cores on Multiple Spatial Scales

B. C. Matthews (UC Berkeley), J. D. Fiege (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics), J. S. Greaves (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh), C. D. Wilson (McMaster University)

4.05 Deep Inside OMC2

T J Jones (Univ. of Minnesota), D I Kelbe (Colorado College), M J Creech-Eakman (JPL), R Stencel (Denver Univ.)

4.06 Mapping the Initial Configuration of Young Stellar Clusters: Deep Near-Infrared Observations of OMC2/OMC3

D. E. Peterson (Univ. of Rochester), S. T. Megeath (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. L. Pipher (Univ. of Rochester), P. C. Myers, L. E. Allen (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

4.07 Velocity Fields of Embedded Cores in NGC1333 and L1448

N. H. Volgenau, L. G. Mundy (U. Maryland), L. W. Looney (MPE, Garching), W. J. Welch (UC, Berkeley)

4.08 Chandra Observations of the Eagle Nebula: Seeing through the ``Pillars of Creation''

A.M. Mytyk, K.J. Daniel, M. Gagne (West Chester University), J.L. Linsky (JILA/University of Colorado)

4.09 Analysis of Near-IR Images of Candidate Protostars in the Taurus-Auriga Molecular Cloud

S. Park (UC Berkeley, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), S.J. Kenyon (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

4.10 A Near/Mid-Infrared Imaging Survey for Protostellar Binaries in Rho Ophiuchus and Serpens

K.E. Haisch Jr., T.P. Greene (NASA ARC), M. Barsony, M. Ressler (NASA JPL)

4.11 Star Formation in the Gum Nebula: Cometary Globules and HII regions

J. Serena Kim, F. M. Walter (SUNY at Stony Brook), S. J. Wolk (CfA)

4.12 Water Masers and YSOs in H~II Regions - A Continuing Survey

K. R. Healy (Arizona State University), M. J. Claussen (NRAO), J. J. Hester (Arizona State University)

4.13 Methanol Maser Emission in W75N and Orion Molecular Cloud 2 (OMC 2)

J. A. Goetz, D. W. Brubaker (College of Wooster), C. A. Clerc (University of Dallas)

4.14 A Search for Class I Methanol Masers

P. Pratap (MIT Haystack Observatory)

4.15 Tracing Recent Star Formation in and around the molecular \rho~Oph with F~stars from the 2MASS and \it{uvby} Surveys

C. Lisse (Univ. of Maryland, Dept. Astron.), A. A. Suchkov (STScI), A. Schultz (STScI/Computer Sciences Co.)

4.16 A Systematic Survey for Nearby Young Stars

E. L. N. Jensen (Swarthmore College), B. A. Biller (CfA), D. W. Koerner (Univ.\ of Pennsylvania), R. S. Whitaker (Swarthmore College), N. R. Bonaventura (Univ.\ of Pennsylvania), A. Dullighan (M.I.T.)