Session 6 Black Holes and Pulsars

Poster, Monday, May 26, 2003, 9:20am-6:30pm, West Exhibit Hall

6.01 Extensive Optical Studies of the Black Hole Binary XTE J1118+480

J.B. Fitzgerald, J.A. Orosz (San Diego State University Astronomy Department)

6.02 The Formation of relativistic jets from Kerr Black Holes

K.-I. Nishikawa, G. Richardson, R. Preece (NSSTC), P. Hardee (Univ. Alabama, Tuscaloosa), S. Koide (Toyama Univ.), K. Shibata (Kyoto Univ.), T. Kudoh (Univ. Western Ontario), H. Sol (Obs. de Paris-Meudon), J. P. Hughes (Rutgers Univ.), J. Fishman (NSSTC)

6.03 Black Hole Mergers in a Gas-Rich Environment

P. Coppi, A. Escala, R.B. Richard (Yale University)

6.04 Diagnostics of the Relativistic Jets in SS 433 using High Resolution X-ray Spectra

L.A. Lopez, H.L. Marshall, J.F. Kane, C.R. Canizares, N.S. Schulz (MIT CSR)

6.05 Evolutionary Models of Accreting Millisecond Pulsars

L. A. Nelson (Bishop's University), S. A. Rappaport (M.I.T.)

6.06 Observation of PSR B1823-13 and its PWN using the Chandra X-ray Observatory

M.A. Teter, D. Sanwal, G.G. Pavlov (Penn State University), S. Tsuruta (Montana State University)