Session 49. Eta Carinae, LBVs, and Circumstellar Disks

Poster, Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall AB

49.01 Recent X-ray Variability of Eta Car Approaching The X-ray Eclipse

M. Corcoran (USRA & GSFC-LHEA), J. H. Swank (GSFC-LHEA), K. Ishibashi (MIT), T. Gull (GSFC-LASP), R. Humphreys (U. Minn), A. Damineli (IAGUSP), N. Walborn (STScI), D. J. Hillier (U. Pitt), K. Davidson (UMinn.), S. M. White (UMD), R. Petre (GSFC-LHEA), J. Pittard (Leeds), Y. Butt (CfA), K. Verner (Catholic U.)

49.02 High-Velocity Absorption Features in FUSE Spectra of Eta Carinae

G. Sonneborn (NASA's GSFC), R.C. Iping (CUA, NASA's GSFC), T.R. Gull (NASA's GSFC), G. Vieira (SSAI, NASA's GSFC)

49.03 Global Properties of the Ejecta Absorptions in the Spectrum of Eta Carinae

T.R. Gull (NASA's GSFC), G.L. Vieira (SSAI, NASA's GSFC), A.C. Danks (L3-Analytics, NASA's GSFC)

49.04 The -145 km/s Absorption System of Eta Carinae

G.L. Vieira (SSAI,NASA's GSFC), T.R. Gull (NASA's GSFC), A.C. Danks (L3-Analytics, NASA's GSFC), S. Johansson (Lund Observatory)

49.05 Properties of the -513 km/s Ejecta in the Spectrum of Eta Carinae

A.C. Danks (L3-Analytics, NASA's GSFC), T.R. Gull (NASA's GSFC), G.L. Vieira (SSAI, NASA's GSFC), S. Johansson (Lund Observatory)

49.06 Quadrupolar Outflow: A Single-Wind Model for the \eta Carinae Nebula

S. Matt (Physics & Astronomy Dept.; McMaster University), B. Balick (Astronomy Dept.; University of Washington)

49.07 The Propagation of Radiative Interstellar Bullets: The Strings of \eta Car

A.Y. Poludnenko (University of Rochester), S. Mitran (University of North Carolina), G. Mellema (Leiden University), A. Frank (University of Rochester)

49.08 The Dust Ring of LBV Candidate HD 168625

T. B. O'Hara, M. Meixner, A. K. Speck, T. Ueta (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), M. Bobrowsky (Challenger Center)

49.09 The Millenium Outburst of the Yellow Hypergiant \rho Cassiopeiae

A. Lobel, A. K. Dupree, R. P. Stefanik, G. Torres (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MA), G. Israelian (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain), N. Morrison (University of Toledo, OH), I. Ilyin (University of Oulu, Finland), C. de Jager, H. Nieuwenhuijzen (Space Research Organization of The Netherlands, The Netherlands)

49.10 Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer in Very Optically Thick Circumstellar Disks

J. E. Bjorkman (U. Toledo), B. A. Whitney (Space Science Institute), K. Wood (U. St. Andrews)

49.11 Extrasolar Meteors from Debris Disks

J.C. Weingartner, N. Murray (CITA)

49.12U Circumstellar Disk Diagnostics from Polarimetry and Infrared Excesses

A.C. Gault, K.S. Bjorkman, J.E. Bjorkman (U. Toledo)

49.13U FUV spectroscopic study of the circumstellar environment of the Herbig Be star HD 250550.

C. Martin, J.-C. Bouret, M. Deleuil (LAM), T. Simon (IfA, U. of Hawaii), C. Catala (Observatoire de Meudon), A. Roberge (DTM)

49.14 Probing the circumstellar environment of the Herbig Be star HD 100546 with FUSE.

M. Deleuil (LAM), A. Lecavelier des Etangs (IAP), J.-C. Bouret (LAM), A. Roberge (DTM), A. Vidal-Madjar (IAP), P.D. Feldman (JHU), R. Ferlet (IAP), C. Martin (LAM)

49.15 A Narrow-band Survey of the Environments of Galactic B[e] Stars

A. P. Marston, B. McCollum (SIRTF Science Center, Caltech)

49.16 Far-Ultraviolet Observations of the Circumstellar Gas in the 2 Andromedae System

K.-P. Cheng (California State University, Fullerton), J.E. Neff (College of Charleston)