Session 96 GALEX I: The Mission and Early Type Galaxies

Oral, Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial III

96.01 The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)

C. Martin (CalTech), GALEX Science Team

96.02 On-Orbit Performance of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)

P. Morrissey (CalTech), GALEX Science Team

96.03 Preliminary UV Spectroscopic Performance and Survey Results from the GALEX Mission

T.A. Barlow (CalTech), GALEX Science Team

96.04 Number Counts of GALEX Sources in FUV (1550A) and NUV (2200A)

C.K. Xu (California Institute of Technology), J. Donas (Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, Marseille, France), GALEX Science Team

96.05 Galex Measurements of the Ultraviolet Rising Flux in Low Redshift Elliptical Galaxies

R. M. Rich, S. Salim (UCLA), G. Kauffmann, S. Charlot (MPIA), Y.-W. Lee (Yonsei U.), GALEX Science Team

96.06 GALEX Observations of the Ultraviolet Luminosity and Color Profiles of the Local Group Elliptical Galaxy M32

A. Gil de Paz (Carnegie Observatories), B. F. Madore (Carnegie Observatories & NED/Caltech), M. Rich (UCLA), M. Seibert (CalTech), GALEX Science Team

96.07 GALEX Wide-field Ultraviolet Imaging of NGC~5128 (Centaurus-A)

S.G. Neff (NASA/GSFC), D. Schiminovich, C. D. Martin (CIT), GALEX Science Team

96.08 GALEX UV observations of M31 globular cluster system

S.-C. Rey (Yonsei University and Caltech), M. Rich (UCLA), Y.-W. Lee, Y.-J. Sohn (Yonsei University), GALEX Science Team

96.09 The GALEX QSO Survey

K. Forster (CalTech), GALEX Science Team