Session 27. Stars, Gas, and Dust in the Milky Way

Oral, Monday, January 6, 2003, 10:00-11:30am, 618-619

27.01 Estimating the Characteristic Magnetic Field Strength in the Cold Dust at the Galactic Center

D. T. Chuss (NASA/GSFC), G. Novak (Northwestern University), J. A. Davidson, J. L. Dotson (NASA/Ames), C. D. Dowell (Caltech), R. H. Hildebrand (University of Chicago), J. E. Vaillancourt (University of Wisconsin)

27.02D Hot Molecular Gas in the Central 10 Parsecs of the Galaxy

R. M. Herrnstein, P. T. P. Ho (Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA)

27.03 Measurements of streaming motions of the Galactic Bar with Red Clump Giants

T. Sumi, L. Eyer (Princeton), P. Wozniak (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

27.04D Near-Infrared Observations of Massive Stars in the Milky Way

N. L. Homeier (ESO-Garching & U Wisconsin, Madison)

27.05 A New Population of Old Stars

I.I. Ivans (Caltech), C. Sneden (UT-Austin), C.R. James (Sam Houston), G.W. Preston (Carnegie), J.P. Fulbright (Carnegie,), P.A. Hoeflich (UT-Austin)