Session 53 Star Formation, Interstellar Medium

Oral, Thursday, May 29, 2003, 10:00-11:30am, 209/210

53.01  Cloud Structure and Physical Conditions in Star-forming Regions from Optical Observations

K. Pan, S. R. Federman (U. Toledo)

53.02 New 3-D maps of the dense interstellar gas surrounding the Local Bubble.

B.Y. Welsh (UC Berkeley), R. Lallement (CNRS/France), J.L. Vergely (ACRI-ST, France), F. Crifo (Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France), D. Sfeir (Eureka Scientific)

53.03 SCUBA Polarization Measurements of the Magnetic Field Strengths in the L183, L1544, and L43 Prestellar Cores

R. M. Crutcher (U. Illinois), D. J. Nutter, D. Ward-Thompson (Cardiff U.)

53.04D Submillimetre and Infrared Observations of Prestellar Cores

J.M. Kirk (UIUC), D. Ward-Thompson (Cardiff University), P. André (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay)

53.05D High-resolution Near-IR Survey of T Tauri Stars: Searching for Quiescent H₂ Emission from Planet-forming Disks

J.S. Bary (Vanderbilt University)

53.06 NGC 7538S - a High-mass Protostar with a Massive Rotating Disk

G. Sandell (USRA-SOFIA, NASA ARC), M. Wright, J.R. Forster (RAL, UC Berkeley)