Session 17. AGN, QSOs and Active Galaxies

Oral, Monday, June 3, 2002, 10:00-11:30am, Ballroom A

17.01 Monte Carlo Simulations of Polarization by Scattering near AGNs

R. W. Goosmann, C. M. Gaskell (U. Nebraska)

17.02 \emph{Chandra} Observations of SDSS Quasars at Redshift 6

D. A. Schwartz (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

17.03 X-ray Fluctuation Power Spectral Density Survey of Six Seyfert~1 Galaxies

A. Markowitz (U.C.L.A. Dept. of Astronomy)

17.04 ``Hidden'' Seyfert 2 Galaxies and the X-ray Background

E.C. Moran (Wesleyan U.), A.V. Filippenko (U.C. Berkeley)

17.05 QSO Emission Lines and the Black Hole-Galaxy Bulge Relation

G. A. Shields, K. Gebhardt, S. Salviander, B. J. Wills, M. Yuan (U. Texas), B. Xie (Rutgers U.), M. Dietrich (U. Florida)

17.06 Quasars at high redshift and star formation history

M. Dietrich, F. Hamann (University of Florida)

17.07 Optical Variability of the Blazar 3C 279

T.J. Balonek, J.S. Kartaltepe (Colgate Univ.)