Session 17. Stellar Evolution and Metal-Poor Stars

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

17.01U The Eddington Limit Upper Boudary for Cool Stars on the HR Diagram

P.J. Mendygral, B.L. Babler, J.P. Cassinelli (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

17.02 Red Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds

P. Massey (Lowell Obs.), K. Olsen (CTIO/NOAO)

17.03 The Origins and Evolutionary Status Of B-Stars Far From The Galactic Plane

J.C. Martin (Case Western Reserve University)

17.04 Interferometric Investigations of Highly Evolved Stars

S. Ragland, W. Traub, M. Lacasse (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Monnier (University of Michigan), R. Millan-Gabet (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), P. Schloerb (University of Massachusetts), J-P. Berger (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble), E. Pedretti, N. Carleton (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

17.05 The Halo Distance Scale: A Statistical Parallax Analysis

M. M. Brewer, B. W. Carney (UNC), D. W. Latham (CfA), J. B. Laird (Bowling Green State Univ.), L. Aguilar (UNAM)

17.06 The Impact of Pollution on Stellar Evolution Models

A. L. Dotter, B. C. Chaboyer (Dartmouth College)

17.07 Theoretical Uncertainties at the Tip of the Red Giant Branch

S.R. Bjork, B.C. Chaboyer (Dartmouth College)

17.08 An HST Search for White Dwarf Companions to 'Blue' Giants in NGC 188 and NGC 6791

B. Chaboyer, E. Dambach (Dartmouth College), E.M. Green (Steward Observatory), W.B. Landsman (GSFC)

17.09 Search for Signatures of Accreted Planetary Material in the Hyades

J. P. Fulbright (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington)

17.10 VLBA Observations of the RS CVn Binary System \sigma Geminorum

D. A. Boboltz, A. L. Fey, K. J. Johnston (U.S. Naval Observatory)

17.11U Study of Suggested New R Coronae Borealis Stars HAD V98 and HD 172468

E. Hesselbach (Alfred U. and Maria Mitchell Obs.), G. C. Clayton (Louisiana State U. and Maria Mitchell Obs.), P. S. Smith (Steward Obs.)

17.12 A Radio "Jet" in the Prototypical Symbiotic Star Z Andromedae?

J. L. Sokoloski (CfA), C. Brocksopp (JMU), C. Kaiser, N. Seymour (U. Southampton)

17.13 Observations of The Symbiotic Star Z Andromedae with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer

A.E. Wehrle (Interferometry Science Center, Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory), M.J. Creech-Eakman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

17.14 Abundances in Very Metal-Poor Stars

J. A. Johnson (DAO/HIA/NRC), M. Bolte (UCO/Lick)

17.15 Discovery of a Lead-Enriched Blue Metal-Poor Field Star

C. Sneden (U. Texas, Austin; Carnegie Obs.), G. W. Preston (Carnegie Obs.), J. J. Cowan (U. Oklahoma)

17.16 Determining Oxygen Abundances in Metal Poor Subdwarfs from Medium Resolution Spectra of the OI Triplet

C.R. James (Sam Houston State University), C.A. Pilachowski (NOAO, KPNO), T. Beers (Michigan State University), C. Sneden (The University of Texas at Austin), R.M. Cavallo (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)