Session 73 White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars

Oral, Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 2:00-3:30pm, Learning Center

73.01 White Dwarfs in the Galactic Inner Halo

J. S. Kalirai (University of British Columbia), H. B. Richer (UBC), B. M. Hansen (UCLA), P. B. Stetson (NRC/HIA), M. M. Shara (AMNH), I. Saviane (ESO), R. M. Rich (UCLA), M. Limongi (Oss. Astr. di Roma), R. Ibata (Obs. de Strasbourg), B. K. Gibson (Swinburne Univ.), G. G. Fahlman (NRC/HIA), J. Brewer (UBC)

73.02 Cracking the Diamond: Testing White Dwarf Crystallization Theory with BPM 37093

T. S. Metcalfe (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), M. H. Montgomery (U. Cambridge, UK), A. Kanaan (UFSC, Brazil)

73.03 The Peculiar Pulsations of PY Vul

S. E. Thompson, J. C. Clemens (UNC-Chapel Hill), M. H. van Kerkwijk (University of Toronto)

73.04D X-rays from Transiently Accreting Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters

C. O. Heinke, J. E. Grindlay (Harvard University)

73.05D Thermal Radiation from the Atmospheres of Magnetic Neutron Stars

W.C.G. Ho (Cornell University & KIPAC)

73.06 Studies of Thermonuclear X-ray bursts using Archival Data from RXTE

D. K. Galloway, D. Chakrabarty (MIT), M. P. Muno (UCLA), D. Psaltis (U. Arizona), A. Cumming (UC Santa Cruz)

73.07 The Implications of Transient Magnetars

A. Ibrahim (NASA/GSFC & GWU), J. Swank (NASA/GSFC), C. Markwardt (NASA/GSFC & UMD)