Session 42 Nearby Stars: Binaries, Theory and the Future

Poster, Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

42.01 White Dwarf-M Dwarf Close Binary Systems in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

N. M. Silvestri, S. L. Hawley, P. Szkody (U. Washington), SDSS Collaboration

42.02 Dwarfs on a Low-Carbon Diet: Modelling the Chemically Peculiar Secondaries of CVs

D. Homeier (U. Georgia), T. E. Harrison (NMSU), T. S. Barman (Wichita State U.), S. B. Howell (NOAO)

42.03 On the Destruction of Binary Stars

B.D. Mason (U.S. Naval Observatory), T.J. Henry (Georgia State University), D.R. Soderblom (Space Telescope Science Institute), W.I. Hartkopf (U.S. Naval Observatory)

42.04 Binarity and the Fine-Print in the Hipparcos Catalogs: A Revised Distance Scale?, More Binaries in the Solar Neighborhood

R. Olling (USNO/USRA)

42.05 Two Suns in the Sky: Many Extrasolar Planets Orbiting Stars in Multiple Systems

D. Raghavan, T.J. Henry, J. Subasavage, T. Beaulieu (Georgia State University)

42.06 Zipf's Law and the Visible Stars

A.R. Upgren (Yale and Wesleyan Universities)

42.07 Astrometric Search for Planets Encircling Nearby Stars (ASPENS)

D.W. Koerner (Northern Arizona University), T.J. Henry (Georgia State University), L.A. Fuhrman, C.C. Parker, I.J. Kaplan (Northern Arizona University), J. Wei-Chun, J. Subasavage (Georgia State University)

42.08 Identifying Cool Brown Dwarfs and Subdwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood: Prospects for a Near-Infrared Proper Motion Survey

A.J. Burgasser (UCLA)

42.09 The ASTRA Spectrophotometer: A Progress Report

S. J. Adelman (The Citadel), A. F. Gulliver (Brandon Univ.), B. Smalley (Keele Univ.), J. S. Pazder (DAO), P. F. Younger (Aurora Astron. Services), L. Boyd, D. Epand (Fairborn Obs.)