Session 15. Black Holes Observed and Modeled

Poster, Monday, January 6, 2003, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall AB

15.01U The Ups and Downs of the Black Hole Binary Cygnus X-1: Correlations of the X-ray High/Low Energy States with the Optical Light Curves

E.G. Barron, J.A. Urban, E.F. Guinan (Villanova University), J.F. Sepinsky (University of Delaware), I. Ribas (Universidad de Barcelona)

15.02 Using Monte-Carlo Simulations to Study the Disk Structure in Cygnus X-1

Y. Yao, S. N. Zhang, X. L. Zhang, Y. X. Feng (UAH/NSSTC)

15.03 Numerical simulations of mass outflows driven from accretion disks by radiation and magnetic forces

D. Proga (JILA, University of Colorado)

15.04 Numerical Simulations of Tilted Accretion Flows around Rotating Black Holes

P. C. Fragile, P. Anninos (LLNL)

15.05 Relativistic Effects Around Black Holes: Smearing of Absorption Edges

X.L. Zhang, Y.X. Feng, S.N. Zhang, Y. Yao (UAH/NSSTC)

15.06 Analysis of the 1999 Outburst of Black Hole Candidate 4U 1630-472

D. Tournear (SLAC), R. Saxena (UC Berkeley), E. D. Bloom, W. Focke, G. Godfrey, P. M. Saz Parkinson, K. T. Reilly, G. Shabad (SLAC), B. Giebels (Ecole Polytechnique, France), K. S. Wood, R. M. Bandyopadhyay, G. Fritz, P. Hertz, M. P. Kowalski, M.N. Lovellette, P. S. Ray, M. T. Wolff, D. J. Yentis (NRL), J. D. Scargle (NASA Ames Research Center)

15.07 Broadband Variability in USA and RXTE Lightcurves of Accreting X-Ray Sources

W. B. Focke, E. D. Bloom, B. Giebels, G. Godfrey, Y. Jiang, P. Saz Parkinson, K. T. Reilly, G. Shabad, D. M. Tournear (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford Univ.), K. S. Wood, R. M. Bandyopadhyay, G. Fritz, P. Hertz, M. P. Kowalski, M. N. Lovellette, P. S. Ray, M. T. Wolff, D. J. Yentis (E. O. Hurlbert Center for Space Research, NRL), J. D. Scargle (NASA/Ames)

15.08 A New Jet-Producing State in the Microquasar GRS 1915+105

D.M. Rothstein, S.S. Eikenberry (Cornell), K. Matthews (Caltech)

15.09 Jet Formation with 3-D General Relativistic MHD Simulations

G. A. Richardson, K.-I. Nishikawa, R. Preece (NSSTC), P. Hardee (Univ. Alabama, Tuscaloosa), S. Koide (Toyama Univ.), K. Shibata (Kyoto Univ.), T. Kudoh (Univ. of Western Ontario), H. Sol (Obs. de Paris-Meudon), J. P. Hughes (Rutgers Univ.), J. Fishman (NSSTC)

15.10 Numerical Simulations of Compressible MHD turbulence

J. Cho, A. Lazarian (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

15.11 Revised parameters for the black hole binary 4U 1543-47

J. A. Orosz, E. J. Polisensky (San Diego State University), C. D. Bailyn, S. W. Tourtellotte (Yale), J. E. McClintock (CfA), R. A. Remillard (MIT)

15.12 Black Hole Masses in Narrow-Line Seyfert-1 Galaxies and Ultra-Luminous non-Nuclear X-ray Sources

C.R. Shrader (NASA/GSFC & USRA), L. Titarchuk (GMU & NRL)

15.13U Investigation of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole in the Starburst Galaxy M82

E. Wan, N. K. Mesta, J. W. Keohane, C. M. Olbert, C. R. Clearfield (NCSSM)