Session 42. X-ray Binaries II

Oral, Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 4:30-5:30pm

42.01 Magnetic Field Evolution in the Burning Layer of an Accreting Neutron Star

A. Cumming (University of California, Santa Cruz), E. G. Zweibel (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

42.02 Preceding Hard Flares in the Outburst Rise of Aql X-1: A Link to Black Hole State Transitions

W. Yu, M. Klein-Wolt, R. Fender, M. van der Klis (University of Amsterdam)

42.03 XMM Observations of Cen X-4 in Quiescence

R. E. Rutledge (Caltech), L. Bildsten (ITP/UCSB), E. F. Brown (UChicago), G. G. Pavlov (PSU), V. E. Zavlin (MPE)

42.04 A New Method for Determining the Stability of Material Accreting onto Neutron Stars

J. Heyl, R. Narayan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

42.05 Spectral Signatures of an Accretion Disk Corona during the Low State of Hercules X-1

M. A. Jimenez-Garate (MIT), D. A. Liedahl (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), J. C. Raymond (CfA), C. J. Hailey (Columbia University)