Session 81 Black Holes

Poster, Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

81.01 IR Observations of Black Hole Binary GRO J0422+32 in Quiescence

S.M. Curry, C. Bailyn, M. Buxton (Yale Department of Astronomy)

81.02 Optical and Infrared Observations of the Black Hole X-Ray Binary XTE J1118+480

D. M. Gelino (UCSD/CASS), S. Balman, U. Kiziloglu, A. Yilmaz (Middle East Technical University), E. Kalemci (UC, Berkeley), J. A. Tomsick (UCSD/CASS)

81.03 SMARTS/YALO Observations of the BH Candidates 4U1543-47 & GX 339-4: Evidence for Jet Emission?

M.M. Buxton, C.D. Bailyn (Yale University)

81.04 Identification of the Mass Donor Spectrum in SS 433

T. C. Hillwig, D. R. Gies, W. Huang (Georgia State University)

81.05 The 2003 Outburst of the Black Hole Binary V4641 Sgr (=SAX 1819.3-2525)

C. D. Bailyn, D. Maitra, M. Buxton (Yale University), A. Chen (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)

81.06 Wind Accretion and State Transitions in the Black Hole Binary Cyg X-1

D. R. Gies (Georgia State Univ.), C. T. Bolton (Univ. Toronto), R. Fender (Univ. Amsterdam), A. Herrero (Inst. Astrofisica de Canarias), T. C. Hillwig (Georgia State Univ.), L. Kaper (Univ. Amsterdam), M. V. McSwain (Georgia State Univ.), J. Thomson (Univ. Toronto), D. J. Wallace (NASA GSFC), P. J. Wiita (Georgia State Univ.)

81.07 Effects of Comptonization By Outflowing Plasma in Compact X-ray Sources

C.R. Shrader (NASA/GSFC & USRA), L.G. Titarchuk (GMU, NRL, NASA/GSFC)

81.08 Monitoring the Spectral Variability of the Ultraluminous X-Ray Source in Holmberg IX

B.E. Unks, P.O. Slane, K.A. Erikson, A.H. Szentgyorgyi, P. Kaaret (CXC)

81.09 The Optical Counterpart and Spectrum of the ultra-luminous X-ray source in NGC5204

J. Liu, J. Bregman (University of Michigan)

81.10 A Statistical Survey of Ultra-luminous X-Ray Sources

J. Bregman, J. Liu (University of Michigan)

81.11 Gravitational waves from parabolic encounters with black holes

S. L. Larson, J. R. Gair, D. Kennefick (CalTech)

81.12 Force-Free Magnetosphere of an Accreting Black Hole

D. A. Uzdensky (Kavli Inst. for Theor. Physics, UCSB)

81.13 Simulations of Relativistic Jet Formation

G. A. Richardson, K. I. Nishikawa (NSSTC / MSFC)